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

                                
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                                  And bryngeþ hir to such a place anoon
                                
                                  Thay take her leue and on her wey þey gon
                                
                                  But þay ne wiste why sche þider went
                                
                                  He nolde no wight tellen his entent [folio 160b] 
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                                  . . . .  [no gap in the MS.: these lines are] 
                                
                                  . . . .  [known only in the Ellesmere MS.] 
                                
                                  This squyer which þat hight aurelius
                                
                                  On dorigen þat was so amerous
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                                  Of aduenture happed hire to mete
                                
                                  Amyd þe toun right in þe quyke strete
                                
                                  As sche was boun to goon þe wey forþ-right
                                
                                  Toward þe Gardyn þer as sche had hight
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                                  And he was to þe gardynward also /
                                
                                  For wel he spyed whan sche wolde go
                                
                                  Out of hir hous to eny maner place
                                
                                  But þus þay mette of aduenture or grace
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                                  And he salueth hir with glad entent
                                
                                  And askith hire whiderward sche went/
                                
                                  And sche answered half as sche were mad
                                
                                  vnto þe gardyn as myn housbond bad
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                                  My trouþe for to holde allas allas
                                
                                  Aurilius gan wondren on þis caas
                                
                                  And in his hert had gret compassioun
                                
                                  Of hire and of hir lamentacioun
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                                  And of Arueragus þe worþy knight
                                
                                  That bad hir hold al þat sche hadde hight
                                
                                  So loþ him was his wif schuld breke hir trouþe
                                
                                  And in his hert he caught of this gret rouþe
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                                  Consideryng þe best on euery syde
                                
                                  That fro his lust ȝet were him leuer abyde
                                
                                  Than doon so high a cheerlissch wrecchednesse
                                
                                  Agayns fraunchis of alle gentilesce

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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 363
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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