The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And happed al alone as sche was born
                                
                                  he saugh a mayde walkyng him byforn
                                
                                  Of which mayden anoon maugre hir heed
                                
                                  By verray fors byraft hir maydenhed
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                                  For such oppressioun was such clamour
                                
                                  And such pursuyte vnto kyng arthour
                                
                                  That dampned was þe knight and schuld be ded
                                
                                  By cours of lawe and schuld haue lost his heed
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                                  Parauenture such was þe statut þo
                                
                                  But þat þe queen and oþer ladys mo
                                
                                  So longe preyeden þay þe kyng of grace [folio 98a] 
                                
                                  Til he his lif haþ graunted in þe place
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                                  And ȝaf him to þe queen al at hir wille
                                
                                  To chese wethir sche wolde him saue or spille
                                
                                  The queen thanked þe kyng wiþ al hir might
                                
                                  And after þus sche spak vnto þe knight
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                                  whan þat sche saugh hir tyme vpon a day
                                
                                  Thow stondest ȝet quod he in such array
                                
                                  Þat of þy lyf hastow no sewerte
                                
                                  I graunte þy lif if þou canst telle me
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                                  what þing is it þat wommen most desiren
                                
                                  Be war and keep þy nek bon fro þe Iren
                                
                                  And if þou canst not tellen it anoon
                                
                                  Ȝet wol I ȝiue þe leue for to goon
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                                  A twelf month and a day it for to lere
                                
                                  An answar suffisaunt in þis matiere
                                
                                  And seurte wol I haue er þat þou pace
                                
                                  Thy body for to ȝelden in þis place
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                                  wo was þis knight and sorwfully he siked
                                
                                  But what. he may not doon al as him liked
                                
                                  And atte last he ches him for to wende
                                
                                  And cam aȝein right at þe ȝeres ende
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                                  wiþ swich answer as god him wolde purueye
                                
                                  And takith his leue and wendith forþ his weye
                                
                                  He sekith euery hous and euery place
                                
                                  wher-so he hopith for to fynde grace

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 220
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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