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

                                
                                  And ȝit it were a game to here it all
                                
                                  Til him þat meneþe wele it ner no charge
                                
                                  Bot it is goode a man be att his large
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                                  Her brihte here vn-kembed vntrussed al
                                
                                  A coron of a grene oke serial [VII. 74.] 
                                
                                  Vpon hire hed sett ful feire and mete
                                
                                  Two fires on þe auter gan sche bete
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                                  And dide hir þinges as men mai be-holde
                                
                                  In Stace of Thebes as þes bokes olde
                                
                                  Whan kindeled was þe fire wiþ pitous chere [VII. 76.] 
                                
                                  Vn to Diane sche spak as ȝe maye here
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                                  ¶ O chaste goddes of þe wodes grene [VII. 79.] 
                                
                                  To whom boþe heuen and erþe and see is sene [VII. 77.] 
                                
                                  Queene of þe regne of Pluto derke and lawe
                                
                                  Goddes of maydenes þat myn hert haste knowe
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                                  fful mony a ȝere and woste what .I. desire
                                
                                  As kepe me fro þi veniance and þine ire [VII. 79.] 
                                
                                  Þat Attheon abouht cruely
                                
                                  Chaste goddes wel woste þou þat .I.
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                                  Desire to be a maiden al my lif
                                
                                  Ne neuer wil .I. be no loue ne wi
                                
                                  .I. am þou woste ȝit of þi compaignie [VII. 81.] 
                                
                                  A mayden and loue huntynge and venerye
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                                  And for to walken in þe wodes wilde
                                
                                  And nouht to bene a wif and be wiþ childe
                                
                                  Note wil .I. knowe company of man [VII. 81.] 
                                
                                  Now he[re] me ladi seþþe ȝe maie and can
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                                  ffor þree formes þat þu haste in þe
                                
                                  And palamon þat haþ suche a loue to me
                                
                                  And eke Arcite þat loueþ me so sore
                                
                                  Þis grace .I. pray. ȝowe wiþ-owten more [VII. 84.] 
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                                  And sende loue and pees be-twene hem two
                                
                                  And fro me torne awaie her hertes soo
                                
                                  That al her hote loue and desire [folio 29b] 
                                
                                  And al her bysy torment and hire fire
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                                  Be qveynte or tornede in a noþeþer place

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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 66
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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