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

                                
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                                  A trew wight and a theef þenketh nouȝt oon
                                
                                  And when he saugh þe þyng so fer I-goon
                                
                                  That I graunted him fully my loue /
                                
                                  In such a wyse as I haue sayd aboue /
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                                  And ȝeuen him my trewe hert as fre [folio 156a] 
                                
                                  As he swor he ȝaf his herte to me /
                                
                                  Anon þis Tigre ful of doublenesse
                                
                                  Fil on his knees with so gret deuoutenesse
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                                  wiþ high reuerence and as by his chere
                                
                                  So lyk a gentil louer of manere
                                
                                  So rauysched as it semede for Ioye
                                
                                  That neuer Iason ne Parys of Troye
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                                  Iason certes ne noon oþer man
                                
                                  Siþ lameth was þat alþer first bygan
                                
                                  To louen two as writen folk biforn
                                
                                  Ne neuer siþ þe firste man was born
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                                  Ne couþe man by twenty þousand part
                                
                                  Contrefete þe sophemes of his art
                                
                                  Ne were worþy to vnbokel his galoche
                                
                                  Ther doublenes of feynyng schold approche
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                                  Ne so couþe þankyn a knight as he did me
                                
                                  His maner was an heuen for to see
                                
                                  To eny womman were sche neuer so wys
                                
                                  So peynteth he and kembeth poynt deuys
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                                  As wel his wordes as his continaunce
                                
                                  And I so loued him for his obeisaunce
                                
                                  And for þe trouthe I demed in his herte
                                
                                  That if so were þat eny þing him smerte
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                                  And were it neuer so litel and I it wist
                                
                                  Me þought I felte deth at myn hert twist
                                
                                  And schortly so ferforth þis þing went
                                
                                  That my wil was his willes instrument
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                                  This is to say my wille obeied his wille
                                
                                  In alle þing as fer as resoun fille
                                
                                  kepyng þe boundes of my worschip euer
                                
                                  Ne neuer had I þing so leef ne leuer

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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 352
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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