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

                                
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                                  I ȝiue it ȝow makith chartres as ȝow leste
                                
                                  This schal ben doon to morw er sonne reste
                                
                                  So wisly god my soule bringe in blisse
                                
                                  I pray ȝow first in couenaunt ȝe me kisse
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                                  And þough þat I be ialous wyt me nought
                                
                                  Ȝe ben so deep emprinted in my þought
                                
                                  Þat whan þat I considre ȝour beaute
                                
                                  And þer wiþ al þe vnlikly eelde of me
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                                  I may nought certes þough I schulde dye
                                
                                  Forbere to ben out of ȝour companye
                                
                                  For verray loue þis is wiþouten doute
                                
                                  Now kisse me wyf and let vs Rome aboute
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                                  This freissche may whan sche his worde herde
                                
                                  Benignely to Ianuary answerde /
                                
                                  But first and forward sche bigan to wepe
                                
                                  I haue quod sche a soule for to kepe [folio 145b] 
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                                  As wel as ȝe and also myn honour
                                
                                  And of my wifhod þilke tendre flour
                                
                                  which þat I haue ensured in ȝour hond
                                
                                  whan þat þe prest to ȝow my body bond
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                                  wherfor I wil answer in þis manere
                                
                                  By þe leue of ȝow my lord so deere
                                
                                  I pray to god þat neuer dawe þe day
                                
                                  That I ne sterue as foule as womman may
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                                  If euer I do to my kyn þat schame
                                
                                  Or elles I empaire so my name
                                
                                  That I be fals and if I do þat lak
                                
                                  Doth strepe me and put me in a sak
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                                  And in þe nexte ryuer do me drenche
                                
                                  I am a gentil womman and no wenche
                                
                                  why speke ȝe thus . but men ben euer vntrewe
                                
                                  And wommen han reproef of ȝow euer newe
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                                  Ȝe haue noon oþer contenaunce I leue /
                                
                                  But speke to vs of vntrust and repreue
                                
                                  And with þat word sche saugh wher damyan
                                
                                  Sat in þe buissh and coughen sche bigan

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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 328
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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