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 ...

                                
                                  And if so be / þou wylt nat do me grace
                                
                                  Of if my destenye / be I-shape so
                                
                                  That I shal nedes haue / on of hem two
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                                  As send me him / that most desireth me
                                
                                  Byhold goddesse / of clene chastite
                                
                                  The bitter teres / that on my chekys falle
                                
                                  Syn þou art Mayde / and kepere of vs alle
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                                  My maydenhode þou kepe / and wel conserue
                                
                                  And while I lyue / a Mayde I wol the serue [folio 30b] 
                                
                                  ¶ . The fires brennen / vp-on the auter clere
                                
                                  while Emelye / was thus / in hire preyere
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                                  But sodeynly she sey / a sight queynte
                                
                                  ffor right a-non / on of the fires queynte
                                
                                  And quyked a-geyn / and after that a-non
                                
                                  That other fir was queynt / and al a-gon
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                                  And as it queynt / it made a whistelyng
                                
                                  As don theise wete brondes / in here brennyng
                                
                                  And at the brondes ende / ouȝt ran a-non
                                
                                  As it were blody dropes / many on
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                                  ffor which so sore a-gast / was Emelye
                                
                                  That she was wol ny mad / and gan to crye
                                
                                  ffor she ne wyst / what it signified
                                
                                  But only for the feer / thus hath she cried
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                                  And wepte / þat it was pite for to here
                                
                                  ¶ . And ther-withal / Diane gan a-pere
                                
                                  with bowe in hond / right as an huntresse
                                
                                  And seide doughter / stynt thyn heuynesse
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                                  Among the goddes hie / it is a-fermed
                                
                                  And by eterne word / wryten and confermed
                                
                                  Thow shalt ben wedded / vn-to on of tho
                                
                                  That han for the / so meche care and woo
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                                  But vn-to which of hem / I may nat telle
                                
                                  ffare wel / I may no lengere dwelle
                                
                                  The fires which / that on myn auter brenne
                                
                                  Shuln the declaren / er that þow go henne
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                                  Thyn auenture of loue / as in this caas

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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 67
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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