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

                                
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                                  I yeue it yow / maketh chartres as yow leste
                                
                                  This shal be doon tomorwe er sonne reste
                                
                                  So wisly / god my soule brynge in blisse
                                
                                  I prey yow first/ in couenat ye me kisse
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                                  And though þat I be Ialous wyte me noght
                                
                                  Ye been so depe / enprented in my thoght
                                
                                  That whan I considere youre beautee
                                
                                  And ther with al / the vnlikly elde of me
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                                  I may nat certes / though I sholde dye
                                
                                  fforbere / to been out of youre compaignye
                                
                                  ffor verray loue / this is with outen doute
                                
                                  Now kys me wyf/ and lat vs rome aboute
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                                  ¶ This fresshe May / whan she thise wordes herde
                                
                                  Benyngnely / to Ianuarie answerde
                                
                                  But first and forward / she bigan to wepe
                                
                                  I haue quod she / a soule for to kepe
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                                  As wel as ye / and also myn honour
                                
                                  And of my wyfhod / thilke tendre flour
                                
                                  Which þat I haue / assured in youre hond
                                
                                  Whan þat the preest to yow my body bond
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                                  Wherfore / I wole answere / in this manere
                                
                                  By the leue of yow / my lord so deere
                                
                                  I prey to god / þat neuere dawe the day
                                
                                  That I ne sterue / as foule as womman may
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                                  If euere I do / vn to my kyn that shame
                                
                                  Or elles / I empeyre so my name
                                
                                  That I be fals / and if I do that lakke
                                
                                  Do strepe me / and put me in a sakke
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                                  And in the nexte ryuer / do me drenche
                                
                                  I am a gentil womman and no wenche
                                
                                  Why speke ye thus /? but men been euere vntrewe
                                
                                  And wommen / haue repreue of yow ay newe
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                                  Ye han noon oother contenance I leeue
                                
                                  But speke to vs / of vntrust and repreeue
                                
                                  ¶ And with that word / she saugh wher Damyan
                                
                                  Sat in the bussh / and coughen she bigan

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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 303
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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