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

                                
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                                  Toward the which daunce / he drow ful yerne
                                
                                  In hope / that som wysdom / sholde he lerne
                                
                                  But certeinly / er he came fully there
                                
                                  Vanysshed was this daunce / he nyste where
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                                  No creature saugh he / that bar lyf
                                
                                  Saue on the grene / he saugh sittynge a wyf
                                
                                  A fouler wight ther may no man deuyse
                                
                                  Agayn the knyght this olde wyf gan ryse
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                                  And seyde sire knyght / heer forth ne lith no wey
                                
                                  Tel me / what that ye seken / by youre fey
                                
                                  Parauenture / it may the bettre be
                                
                                  Thise olde folk kan muchel thyng quod she
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                                  ¶ My leeue mooder/ quod this knyght certeyn
                                
                                  I nam but deed / but if that I kan seyn
                                
                                  What thyng it is / that wommen moost desire
                                
                                  Koude ye me wisse / I wolde wel quite youre hire
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                                  ¶ Plight me thy trouthe / heere in myn hand quod she
                                
                                  The nexte thyng that I requere thee
                                
                                  Thou shalt it do / if it lye in thy myght
                                
                                  And I wol telle it yow / er it be nyght
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                                  ¶ Haue heer my trouthe / quod the knyght I grante
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne quod she / I dar me wel auante
                                
                                  Thy lyf is sauf / for I wol stonde therby
                                
                                  Vp-on my lyf/ the queene wol seye as I
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                                  Lat se / which is the proudeste of hem alle
                                
                                  That wereth on / a couerchief/ or a calle
                                
                                  That dar seye nay / of that I shal thee teche
                                
                                  Lat vs go forth / with-outen lenger speche
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                                  Tho rowned she / a pistel in his ere
                                
                                  And bad hym to be glad / and haue no fere
                                
                                  ¶ Whan they be comen to the court / this knyght
                                
                                  Seyde / he had holde his day / as he hadde hight
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                                  And redy was his answere / as he sayde
                                
                                  fful many a noble wyf / and many a mayde
                                
                                  And many a wydwe / for þat they been wise
                                
                                  The queene hir-self sittynge as Iustise

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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 196
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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