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

                                
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                                  And bringeþe hir to suche a place anone
                                
                                  þei toke her leue and on þeire wei þei gone
                                
                                  Bot þei ne wist whie sche þedere went
                                
                                  He nold no whiht telle hire entent
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  . . . . . [[These lines known only in the Ellesmere MS.]] 
                                
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                                  Line 1496 
                                
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                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This Swyere whiche þat hiht Aurelius
                                
                                  On dorigen whiche þat was so amerous
                                  Line 1500 
                                
                                  Of aduenture happed. hire to mete
                                
                                  A-mydde þe toune riht in þe quek strete
                                
                                  As sche was boune to gone þe waie forþ riht
                                
                                  To-warde þere as sche had hiht
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  And he was to þe Gardeine ward also
                                
                                  For wele he spiede whan sche wold go
                                
                                  Owte of hire hous to any maner place
                                
                                  Bot þus þei mette of aduenture or of grace
                                  Line 1508 
                                
                                  And he saluyd hire wiþ glad entente
                                
                                  And axed of hire wheder þat sche wente
                                
                                  And sche ansewarde half as sche was madde
                                
                                  [Vnto the gardyn as my husbonde bad [Sloane 1686 folio 205b] ]
                                
                                  My trouþe for to holde alas alas
                                
                                  Aurelius gan wonder of þis caas
                                
                                  And in his hert had grete compassione
                                
                                  Of hire and of hire lamentacione
                                  Line 1516 
                                
                                  And of Arnaragus þe worþi knyht
                                
                                  þat bad hire holde al þat sche hiht
                                
                                  So loþe he was his wif schold breke hir trouþe
                                
                                  And in his herte he kest of þis grete rouþe
                                  Line 1520 
                                
                                  Consideringe þe beste on euery side
                                
                                  þat fro his luste were him better abide
                                
                                  þan done so hihe a cherles wrechednesse
                                
                                  Aȝeines ffraunchis and aȝeynes al gentillesse

                                  Line 1524

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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 373
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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