[6-text p 525]
Than his/ wif were of hir/ trouthe fals/. [Harl. 1758. Not in Sloane 1686, leaf 207.]
The sorow of Dorigen he tolde hym als/.
How loth hir/ was/ to ben a wickid wif.
And that sche leuyr/ had that day lost hir/ lif.
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And that hir/ trouthe sche swore thorogh ynnocence.
Sche neuyr/ erst/ herd speke of apparence [[Harl. extr. ends]] ]
And riht as frely as he sent hire to me
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þat maad me haue of hire so grete pite
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As frely sent .I. hire to hime aȝeine
This is al and somme þere nys no more to seine
This philofre Ansewerde leue broþere
Euer-iche of ȝowe ded gentlyche to oþere
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þou ert a swyere and he is a knyht
Bot god for-bede for his blisful myht
Bot if a clerke couþe do as gentil a dede
As wele as any of ȝowe it is no drede
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Sire .I. reles þe þi þousand pounde
As þou riht nowe were crepe out of þe grounde
Ne neuere or nowe ne haddest knowe me
For sir .I. wil nouȝt take a peny of þe
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For al my craft ne nouȝt for my trauaile
þou haste y-paiede wele for my vitaile
It is ynowhe and fare wele and haue good daie
He toke his hors and forþe he goþe his waie
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//Lordinges þis question þan wald .I. ax nowe
Whyche was þe most fre as þenkeþ ȝowe
Nowe telleþ me or þat .I. forþe wende
.I. can no more my tale is att an ende.
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