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

                                
                                     [6-text p 521] 
                                  
                                  O thena queen þy wifly chastite
                                
                                  To alle wyues may a mirour be
                                
                                  . . .  [no gap in the MS.: these lines are] 
                                
                                  . . . .  [known only in the Ellesmere MS.] 
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                                  Thus playned Dorigen a day or tweye
                                
                                  Purposyng euer þat sche wolde deye
                                
                                  But naþeles vpon þe thridde night
                                
                                  hom cam arueragus þis worþy knight
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                                  And asked hir why þat sche wept so sore /
                                
                                  And sche gan wepe euer lenger þe more
                                
                                  Allas quod sche þat euer was I born
                                
                                  Thus haue I sayd quod sche þus haue I sworn
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                                  And told him al as ȝe han herd biforn
                                
                                  It nedeþ nought reherse it you no more
                                
                                  ¶ This housbond wiþ glad chiere in good wise
                                
                                  Answerd and sayde as I schal ȝou deuyse
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                                  Is þer aught elles Dorigen but þis
                                
                                  Nay nay quod sche god me so rede & wis
                                
                                  This is to moche and it were goddes wille
                                
                                  Ȝe wyf quod he let slepe þat may be stille
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                                  It may be wel peraunter ȝet to day
                                
                                  Ȝe schal ȝour trouþe holden by my fay
                                
                                  For god so wisly haue mercy on me
                                
                                  I hadde wel leuer I-stekid for to be
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                                  For verray loue which I to ȝou haue /
                                
                                  But if ȝe scholde ȝour trouþe kepe and saue
                                
                                  Trouþe is þe heighest þing þat men may kepe
                                
                                  But wiþ þat word he gan anoon to wepe
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                                  And sayde I ȝow forbede vp peyne of deþ
                                
                                  That neuer whil þe lasteth lyf or breth
                                
                                  To no wight telle þou of þis auenture
                                
                                  As I may best I wil my woo endure
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                                  Ne make no contenaunce of heuynesse
                                
                                  Þat folk of ȝou may deme harm or gesse
                                
                                  And for he cleped a squyer and a mayde
                                
                                  Goþ forþ anoon wiþ Dorigen he sayde

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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 362
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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