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

                                
                                  Assemble al þe folk of oure kynrede
                                
                                  And make a werre so scharpe in þis Cite
                                
                                  That by som auenture or by som trete
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                                  Þou mayst/ hire wynne to lady and to wyf
                                
                                  For whom þat I most nedes leese my lyf
                                
                                  For as by wey of possibilite [folio 18a] 
                                
                                  Syn þou art at þi large of prisoun free
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                                  And art a lord gret is þin auantage
                                
                                  More þan is myn þat sterue here in a kage
                                
                                  For I moot weepe and weyle whil I lyue
                                
                                  with al þe woo þat prisoun may me ȝyue
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                                  And eek with peyne þat loue me ȝeueþ also
                                
                                  And doubleþ al my peyne and al my wo
                                
                                  Ther with þe fuyr of Ielousye vpsterte
                                
                                  wiþinne his brest and hent him by þe herte
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                                  So wodly / þat lik was he to by-holde
                                
                                  The box tree or þe asschen deed and colde
                                
                                  Tho seyde he O goddes cruel þat gouerne
                                
                                  This world with byndyng & wiþ word eterne
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                                  And writen in þe table of Athamaunte
                                
                                  Ȝoure parlement and ȝoure eterne graunte
                                
                                  what is mankynde more to ȝow holde
                                
                                  Than is a scheep þat roukeþ in þe folde
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                                  For slayn is man right as anoþer beste
                                
                                  And dwelleþ eek in prisoun and arreste
                                
                                  And haþ seknesse and greet aduersite
                                
                                  And ofte tymes gilteles parde
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                                  what gouernaunce is in ȝoure prescience
                                
                                  That gilteles tormenteþ Innocence
                                
                                  And ȝet encreceþ this al my penaunce
                                
                                  That man is bounden to his obseruaunce
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                                  For goddes sake to letten of his wille
                                
                                  Ther as a beste may al his lust fulfille
                                
                                  And whan a beste is deed he ne haþ no peyne
                                
                                  But man after his deth moot wepe and pleyne
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                                  þough in þis world he haue care and woo

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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 38
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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