The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Assemble alle the folk / of oure kynrede
                                
                                  And make a werre so sharp / on this Citee
                                
                                  That be som auenture / or tretee
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                                  Thow maist haue hire / to lady & to wyf
                                
                                  ffor whom I must nedes / lese my lyf
                                
                                  ffor as be weye / of possibilitee
                                
                                  sithe þou art at þe large / of prison free
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                                  And art a lord / gret is þin auauntage
                                
                                  More þan myn / þat sterueth here in a cage [folio 18b] 
                                
                                  ffor I mote wepe / and wayle while I leue
                                
                                  with al the woo / þat prison may me ȝeue
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                                  And eke with peyne / that loue me ȝeueth also
                                
                                  That doubleth al my turment / and my woo
                                
                                  ¶ . Ther-with / the fyr of ielousie vp stirte
                                
                                  with-Inne his brest / & hent him by the herte
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                                  So wodly / þat he lyke was / to be-hold
                                
                                  To Box tree / or to asshen / dede and cold
                                
                                  ¶ . Thanne seide he / O cruel goddes þat gouerne
                                
                                  This world with byndyng / of ȝoure word eterne
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                                  And wryte in the table / of Athamante
                                
                                  Ȝoure parlament / and ȝoure eterne graunte
                                
                                  what is man-kynde more / vn-to ȝow hold
                                
                                  Than is a shepe / that rukketh in the fold
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                                  ffor slayn is man / right as an other best
                                
                                  And dwelleth eke / in prison / and arrest
                                
                                  And hath seknes / and gret aduersitee
                                
                                  And often tymes / giltlees parde
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                                  what gouernance is / in this prescience
                                
                                  That giltles / turmentist Innocence
                                
                                  And ȝet encreseth this / al my penaunce
                                
                                  That man is bounde / to his obseruance
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                                  ffor goddes sake / to letten of his wylle
                                
                                  There as a best may / al his lust fulfille
                                
                                  And when a best is ded / he hath no peyne
                                
                                  But after his deth / a man mote wepe & pleyne
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                                  Though in þis world / he haue care and woo

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 38
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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