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

                                
                                  He rose to wende on his pilgrenage
                                
                                  Vnto þe blisful Citharea benigne
                                
                                  .I. mene venus honurable and digne
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                                  And in hire houre he walkeþ forþe apace
                                
                                  Vnto þe listes þer hir temple wace
                                
                                  An doune he kneled and wiþ humble chere
                                
                                  And hert sore he seide as ȝe schal here
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                                  ¶ ffairest of faire O ladi myne Venus
                                
                                  Douhter to Ioue and spouse to vulcanus [VII. 43.] 
                                
                                  Thou glader of þe mounte of Citherōn
                                
                                  ffor þilke loue þou haddest to Adon
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                                  Haue pite of my bitter teres smarte.
                                
                                  And take myne humble preier att þine herte
                                
                                  Allas .I. ne haue no langage to telle [VII. 45.] 
                                
                                  The effectes ne þe torment on myn helle
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                                  Mine herte maie myne harmes nouht bi-wreie
                                
                                  .I. am so confuse þat .I. can nouht seie [VII. 45.] 
                                
                                  Bot Merci ladi briht þat knowest wele
                                
                                  Mi þouhte and seest what harmes þat .I. fele.
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                                  Considere al þis and rewe vpon my sore
                                
                                  As wisly as .I. schal for euer More
                                
                                  Enforþe my myht þi trewe seruant be
                                
                                  And halden were alwaie wiþ chastite
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                                  That .I. make myne avowe so ȝe me helpe
                                
                                  .I. kepe nouht of armes for to ȝelpe [VII. 46.] 
                                
                                  Ne .I. ne axe not to morne to haue victorie
                                
                                  Ne renoune in þis caas ne veine glorie
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                                  Of pris of armes blowen vp and doune
                                
                                  Bot .I. wolde haue fully possessione
                                
                                  Of Emelye and die in his seruise
                                
                                  ffinde ȝowe þe manere howe and in whatt wise [VII. 47.] 
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                                  .I. reche nouȝt bot it better maie bue
                                
                                  To haue victorie of hem or þei of me
                                
                                  So þat .I. maie my lady in myne armes
                                
                                  ffor þouhe so be þat mars is god of Armes
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                                  Ȝoure vertue is so grete in heuene aboue

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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 64
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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