The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  He to his hous is gone wiþ sorweful hert
                                
                                  He seiþe he maie nouht fro his deþ astert
                                
                                  Him semeþ he feleþ his hert colde
                                
                                  Vp to þe heuen his hondes gan he olde
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                                  And on his kenes bare he sett him doune
                                
                                  And in his raueinge seide his orisoune
                                
                                  For verrei woo he oute of his witte he braide
                                
                                  He nyst nouht what he spak bot þus he seide
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                                  Wiþ pitous hert haþe he his compleinte be-gunne
                                
                                  Vnto þe goddesse and first vnto þe sonne
                                
                                  He seide Apollo god and gouernoure
                                
                                  And euery planete herbe tre and floure
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                                  þat ȝeuest after þine declinacione
                                
                                  To iche of hem his tyme and his sesone
                                
                                  And þin hebour chaungeþ lowe and hihe
                                
                                  Lorde phebus cast þi me[r]ciable eyhe
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                                  On wriched Aureli whiche þat am for-lorne
                                
                                  Lo lorde my lady haþ my deþ sworne
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen gilte bot þine benygnite
                                
                                  Vppon myne dedly hert haue sum pyte
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                                  Bot wele .I. wote lorde phebus if ȝou liste
                                
                                  ȝe maie me helpe saue my ladi best
                                
                                  Now voucheþ saue þat .I. maie ȝoue deuise
                                
                                  Howe þat .I. maye be holpe and in what wise
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                                  Ȝoure blisful suster lucina þe schene
                                
                                  þat of þe see is chife goddes and qwene
                                
                                  þouhe. neptunus haue deite in þe see
                                
                                  Ȝite emperes aboue him is sche
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                                  Ȝe knowen wele lorde riht as hir desire [folio 145b] 
                                
                                  Is to be queked and lihteþ of ȝoure fire
                                
                                  For whiche she folowþ ȝowe ful besily
                                
                                  Riht so þe see desireþ naturelly
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                                  To folowen hir as sche þat is goddesse
                                
                                  Boþ in þe see and in reuers more and lesse
                                
                                  Wher-for lord Phebus þis is myn request
                                
                                  Do þis miracle or .I. do myne hert to brest

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 360
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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