The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
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                                    And whan that I / hadde geten vn-to me
                                  
                                    By maistrie / al the soueraynetee
                                  
                                    And that he seyde / myn owene trewe wyf/
                                  
                                    Do as thee lust to terme of al thy lyf
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                                    Keepe thyn honour / and keepe eek myn estaat/
                                  
                                    After that day / we hadden neuer debaat
                                  
                                    God helpe me so / I was to hym as kynde
                                  
                                    As any wyf from Denmark vn-to Ynde
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                                    And also trewe / and so was he to me
                                  
                                    I prey to god / that sit in magestee
                                  
                                    So blesse his soule / for his mercy deere
                                  
                                    Now wol I seye my tale / if ye wol heere
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¶ Biholde the wordes bitwene the Somonour / and the ffrere.

                                    
                                      The frere lough / whan he hadde herd al this
                                    
                                      Now dame quod he / so haue I ioye or blis
                                    
                                      This is / a long preamble of a tale
                                    
                                      And whan the Somonour / herde the frere gale
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                                      ¶ Lo quod the Somonour / goddes Armes two
                                    
                                      A frere / wol entremette him euere-mo
                                    
                                      Lo goode men / a flye and eek a frere
                                    
                                      Wol falle / in euery dyssh and mateere
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                                      What spekestow / of preambulacioun
                                    
                                      What amble / or trotte / or pees / or go sit doun
                                    
                                      Thou lettest oure disport in this manere
                                    
                                      ¶ Ye woltow so / sire Somonour quod the frere
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                                      Now by my feith / I shal er that I go
                                    
                                      Telle of a Somonour / swich a tale or two
                                    
                                      That alle the folk/ shal laughen in this place
                                    
                                      ¶ Now elles frere / I bishrewe thy face
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                                      Quod this Somonour and I bishrewe me [folio 76a] 
                                    
                                      But if I telle tales / two or thre
                                    
                                      Of freres / er I come to Sidyngborne
                                    
                                      That I shal make / thyn herte for to morne

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 190
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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