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

                                
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                                  For which in fewe wordes sayd he þus
                                
                                  Madame saith to ȝour lord arueragus
                                
                                  That siþ I se his grete gentilesse
                                
                                  To ȝou. and eek I se wel ȝour distresse
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                                  That him were leuer haue schame and þat were rouþe /
                                
                                  Than ȝe to me schulde breke ȝoure trouþe
                                
                                  I haue wel leuer euer to suffre woo
                                
                                  Than I departe þe loue bytwix ȝow tuo
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                                  I ȝow relesse madame in to ȝour hond
                                
                                  Quyt euery seurement and euery bond
                                
                                  That ȝe han maad to me as her biforn
                                
                                  Sith þilke tyme which þat ȝe were born [folio 161a] 
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                                  My trouþe I plight I schal ȝow neuer repreue
                                
                                  Of no byhest and her I take my leue
                                
                                  As of þe trewest and þe beste wif
                                
                                  That euer ȝit I knew in al my lyf
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                                  But euery wyf be war of hir byhest
                                
                                  On Dorigen remembreþ atte lest
                                
                                  Thus can a squyer doon a gentil dede
                                
                                  As wel as can a knyght wiþouten drede
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                                  Sche þankeþ him vpon hir knees al bare /
                                
                                  And hoom vnto hir housbond is sche fare /
                                
                                  And told him al as ȝe han herd me sayd
                                
                                  And be ȝe siker he was so wel a-payd
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                                  That it were impossible me to write
                                
                                  what schuld I lenger of þis caas endite
                                
                                  Arueragus and Dorigen his wif
                                
                                  In souereyn blisse leden forþ here lyf
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                                  Neuer eft ne was þer anger hem bytwen
                                
                                  he cherisscheþ hir as þough sche were a queen
                                
                                  And sche was to him trewe for euermore /
                                
                                  Of þese tuo folk ȝe gete for me nomore /
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                                  ¶ Aurilius þat his cost haþ al forlorn
                                
                                  Curseþ þe tyme þat euer he was born
                                
                                  Allas quod he allas þat I byhight
                                
                                  Of pured gold a thousand pound of wight

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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 364
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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