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

                                
                                  And if so be þou wilt nouht do me grace
                                
                                  Or if my destany be schapede so [VII. 85.] 
                                
                                  That .I. schal nedes haue one of þem tuo
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                                  As sende me him þat most desireþ me
                                
                                  Be-holde goddes of clene chastite
                                
                                  The bitter teres þat on my cheke falle [VII. 78.] 
                                
                                  Sen þou art Maiden and keper of vs alle
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                                  My maidenhede þou kepe and wele conserue
                                
                                  And wile .I. leue a maide .I. wil ȝowe serue
                                
                                  The fires berne vpon þe auter clere [VII. 88.] 
                                
                                  While emely was þus in hir preiere
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                                  Bot sodanly sche sawe a siht queynte
                                
                                  ffor rihte a-none on of þe fires queynte [VII. 91.] 
                                
                                  An quyked aȝeine and after þat anone
                                
                                  That oþer fire was queynte and al agone
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                                  And as it queynte it maad a whistelynge
                                
                                  As done þes wete brondes in her brenynge [VII. 92.] 
                                
                                  And att þe brondes ende oute ran anone
                                
                                  As it were blodi dropes many one
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                                  ffor whiche so sore agaste was Emelye
                                
                                  That sche was nyhe mad and gan to crie
                                
                                  ffor sche ne wist what it signified [VII. 92.] 
                                
                                  Bot onely for þe fere þus haþ sche cried
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                                  And wepe þat Pite was to here
                                
                                  And þere wiþ all Diane gan a-pere [VII. 88.] 
                                
                                  Wiþ bowe in honde riht as an hunteresse
                                
                                  And seide douhter stinte þine heuinesse
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                                  Amonge þe goddes on hihe it is affermede [VII. 89.] 
                                
                                  And be eterne worde wreten and confermede [['con eterna pa|rola,' VII. 85.]] 
                                
                                  Thou schalt be wedded vn to one of þoo [VII. 89.] 
                                
                                  That haue for þe so muche care and woo
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                                  Bot vnto whiche of hem .I. maie nouht telle [VII. 89.] 
                                
                                  ffare wele for .I. ne maie no longer dwelle
                                
                                  The fires whiche þat on myn auter berne [VII. 89.] 
                                
                                  Schole ȝe declaren arr þat ȝe gon henne
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                                  ¶ Thyne auentur of loue as in þis caas

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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 67
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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