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

                                
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                                  Assemblid ben his answer for to hiere
                                
                                  And afterward þis knight was bode appiere
                                
                                  To euery wight comaundid was cilence
                                
                                  And þat þe knight schuld telle in audience
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                                  what þing þat worldly wommen louen best
                                
                                  ¶ Þe knight ne stood not stille as doþ a best
                                
                                  But to þe questioun anoon answerde
                                
                                  wiþ manly voys þat al the court it herde
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                                  My liege lady generally quod he
                                
                                  wommen desiren to haue soueraynte
                                
                                  As wel ouer hir housbond as ouer hir loue
                                
                                  And for to be in maystry him aboue
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                                  This is þe most desir þough ȝe me kille /
                                
                                  Doþ as ȝow list I am heer at ȝour wille
                                
                                  In al þe court ne was þer wyf ne mayde
                                
                                  Ne wydow þat contraried þat he sayde
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                                  But sayden he . was worþy haue his lif
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word vp start þat olde wif
                                
                                  which þat þe knight saugh sittyng on þe grene [folio 100a] 
                                
                                  Mercy quod sche my soueraigne lady queene
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                                  Er þat ȝour court departe doþ me right
                                
                                  I taughte þis answer vnto þe knight
                                
                                  For which he plighte me his trouþe there
                                
                                  The firste þing þat I wold him requere
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                                  he wold it do if it lay in his might
                                
                                  Bifore þe court þen pray I þe sir knight
                                
                                  Quod sche þat þou me take vnto þy wif
                                
                                  For wel þou wost þat I haue kept þy lif
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                                  If I say fals sey nay vpon þy fey
                                
                                  This knight answerd allas and waylawey
                                
                                  I wot right wel þat such was my byhest
                                
                                  For goddes loue as chese a ne request
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                                  Tak al my good and let my body go
                                
                                  Nay quod sche þan I schrew vs boþe tuo
                                
                                  For þough þat I be foule old and poure
                                
                                  I nolde for al þe metal ne for þe oure

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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 224
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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