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

                                
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                                  Toward þis ilke daunce I drough ful ȝerne /
                                
                                  In hope þat som wisdom schuld I lerne /
                                
                                  But certeynly er I com fully þere
                                
                                  Vanysshid was þis daunce he nyste where /
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                                  No creature saugh he þat bar lif
                                
                                  Sauf on þe greene he saugh sittyng a wyf /
                                
                                  A fouler wight þer may no man deuyse
                                
                                  Aȝens þe knight þis olde wyf gan ryse
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                                  And sayder sir knight heer forth lith no way
                                
                                  Tel me what . ȝe seekyn by ȝour fay
                                
                                  Par aduenture . it may þe better be /
                                
                                  Thise olde folk can mochil þing quod sche
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                                  My lieue modir quod þis knight certayn
                                
                                  I am but ded but if þat I can sayn
                                
                                  what þing is it . þat wommen most desire
                                
                                  Couþe ȝe me wisse . I wold wel quyt ȝour huyre /
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                                  Plight me þy trouth . her in myn hond quod sche [folio 99b] 
                                
                                  The nexte þing þat I require þe
                                
                                  Thou schalt it doo if it be in þy might
                                
                                  And I wol telle it þe er it be night
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                                  haue her my trouþe quod þe knight I graunte
                                
                                  Thanne quod sche I dar me wel auaunte
                                
                                  Þy lif is sauf for I wol stonde þer by
                                
                                  vpon my lif þe queen wol say as I
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                                  let se which is þe proudest of hem alle
                                
                                  Þat werith on a couerchief or a calle
                                
                                  Þat dar say nay of þing I schal þe teche
                                
                                  let vs go forth wiþouten more speche
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                                  Tho rowned sche a pistil in his eere
                                
                                  And bad him to be glad and haue no fere
                                
                                  whan þay ben comen to þe court þis knight
                                
                                  Sayd he had holde . þat day þat he hight
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                                  Al redy was his answer as he sayde
                                
                                  Ful many a noble wyf and many a mayde
                                
                                  And many a wydow for þat þay ben wyse
                                
                                  The queen hirself sittyng as a Iustise

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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 223
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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