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

                                
                                  Latt euery felawe tel his tale aboute
                                
                                  And latt see nowe who schal þe soper winne
                                
                                  And þere .I. laft .I. wil aȝeine beginne
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                                  ¶ This Duc of whome .I. make mensioune [II. 2-5.] 
                                
                                  Whan he was comen al-most to þe toune
                                
                                  In all his wele and his most pride
                                
                                  He was ware as he kast his yhe a side
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                                  Where þat þere kneled in þe hihe waie
                                
                                  A company of ladyes twey. and twaie
                                
                                  Iche after oþer cladde in cloþes blake
                                
                                  Bot suche a crye and suche a woo þei make
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                                  That in þis werlde is creature lyueynge
                                
                                  þat herd suche a noþer weymentynge
                                
                                  And of þis crie þei nolde neuer stenten [II. 25. (before the car.)] 
                                
                                  Till þei þe reynes of his bridel henten
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                                  What folke bene ȝe þat att myne home comynge [II. 26.] 
                                
                                  Perturbe so my fest with cryinge
                                
                                  Quod Theus haue ȝe so grete envie.
                                
                                  Of myne honour þat þus compleigne and crie
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                                  Or who haþ ȝow mysboden or offended
                                
                                  And telleþ me if it maie bene amended
                                
                                  And whi þat ȝe bene cloþed þus in blake
                                
                                  The eldest lady of hem al spake
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                                  Whan sche had swowned wiþ a dedely chere
                                
                                  That it was rewþe for to seen and here
                                
                                  ¶ Sche seide lorde to whome ffortune haþ ȝiuen
                                
                                  Victorie and as a conqueroure to lyuen
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                                  Nat greueþ vs ȝowre honoure and ȝowre glorie [II. 27.] 
                                
                                  Bot we beseke ȝowe of socoure and of mercye
                                
                                  And haue merci on owre woo and owre distrisse
                                
                                  Some drope of Pyte þurgh þi gentillisse
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                                  Vpon vs wricchede wemmen latt ȝe fall
                                
                                  ffor certes lorde þare is none of vs all [II. 28.] 
                                
                                  That sche ne haþe b[e]ne a doches or a quene
                                
                                  Nowe bene we Cayteues as it is wele sene
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                                  Thonked be fortune and hire false whele [folio 13a]

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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 27
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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