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

                                
                                     [6-text p 517] 
                                  
                                  with dredful hert and with ful humble cheere
                                
                                  Salued haþ his owne lady deere
                                
                                  My souerayn lady quod þis woful man
                                
                                  whom I most drede and loue as I can
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                                  And loþest were of al þis world displese /
                                
                                  Nere it þat I for ȝou haue such desese /
                                
                                  That I most deye her at ȝoure foot anoon
                                
                                  Nought wold I telle how me is wo bygoon
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                                  But certes ouþer most I dye or pleyne
                                
                                  Ȝe sleen me gulteles for verrey peyne
                                
                                  But of my deþ þough þat ȝe haue no rouþe
                                
                                  Auyseth ȝow or þat ȝe breke ȝour trouþe
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                                  Repenteþ ȝow for þilke god aboue
                                
                                  Ȝe me sleen by cause þat I ȝou loue
                                
                                  For madame wel ȝe woot what/ ȝe han hight
                                
                                  Nat þat I chalenge eny þing of right
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                                  Of ȝow my souerayn lady but ȝoure grace
                                
                                  But in a gardyn ȝonde at such a place
                                
                                  Ȝe wot right wel what ȝe byhighte me
                                
                                  And in myn hond ȝour trouþe plighte ȝe
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                                  To loue me best god woot/ ȝe sayde so
                                
                                  Al be þat I vnworthy am þerto
                                
                                  Ma dame I speke it for thonour of ȝow
                                
                                  More þan to saue myn hertes lif right now
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                                  I haue do so as ȝe comaunded me
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouche sauf ȝe may go se
                                
                                  Doþ as ȝou list haue ȝoure byheste in mynde
                                
                                  For quyk or deed right þer ȝe schul me fynde
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                                  In ȝow liþ al to do me lyue or deye
                                
                                  But wel I wot þe rokkes ben aweye [folio 158b] 
                                
                                  he takeþ his leue and he astoned stood
                                
                                  In alle hir face nas oon drop of blood
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                                  Sche wend neuer haue be in such a trappe
                                
                                  Allas quod sche þat euer þis schulde happe
                                
                                  For wend I neuer by possibilite
                                
                                  That such a monstre or merueyl mighte be /

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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 358
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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