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

                                
                                     [6-text p 517] 
                                  
                                  Wiþ d[r]edeful herte and humble chiere [folio 148b] 
                                
                                  Saluyd haþ his souereigne lady dere
                                
                                  ¶ My rihtful lady quod þis woful man
                                
                                  Whome .I. moste drede and loue as .I. best can
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                                  And loþest wer of al þis werlde displese
                                
                                  Nere it þat .I. for ȝowe haue suche disese
                                
                                  þat .I. muste deye here att ȝoure fote anone
                                
                                  Bot nouht wold .I. tel howe me is wo begone
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                                  Bot certes eyþer must .I. deye or pleine
                                
                                  Ȝe sleine me giltles for verrei peine
                                
                                  Bot of my deþe ȝouhe ȝe haue no reuþe
                                
                                  Aviseþ ȝowe ar þat ȝe lese ȝoure treuþe
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                                  Repenteþ ȝowe for þilke god aboue
                                
                                  Or ȝe me sleyne because þat .I. ȝowe loue
                                
                                  For madame wele ȝe wote þat ȝe haue hiht
                                
                                  [Nouȝt that I Chalenge ony thing of ryght [Harl. 7333 folio 85a:2] ]
                                
                                  Of ȝow souereigne ladye bot ȝoure grace
                                
                                  Bot in a gardeine ȝonde in suche a place
                                
                                  ȝe woote riht wele þat ȝe be-hiht me
                                
                                  And in ȝoure honde ȝoure trouþe pliht me
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                                  To loue me best god wote ȝe saide so
                                
                                  And al be þat. þat .I. vnworþe am þerto
                                
                                  Madame .I. speke it for þe honoure of ȝoue
                                
                                  More þan to saue myn herte lif riht nowe
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                                  .I. haue done as ȝe haue commanded me
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouche-saf ȝe maie go see
                                
                                  And as ȝow luste haueþ ȝoure behest in mynde
                                
                                  For whikke or dede riht þus ȝe schal me fynde
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                                  In ȝowe liþe al to do me lyue or deye
                                
                                  Bot wele .I. wote þe rokkes bene aweye
                                
                                  He toke his leue and sche astonyed stode
                                
                                  In al hir face þere nas a drope of blode
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                                  Sche wende neuer haue commen in suche a trappe
                                
                                  Alas quod sche þat euer þis scholde happe
                                
                                  For wend .I. neuer be possibelite
                                
                                  That suche a mustre or suche a merveile scholde be

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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 368
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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