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

                                
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                                  As hym god woot ne neuere shal namo [folio 125b] 
                                
                                  This lasteth lenger/ than a yeer or two
                                
                                  That I supposed of hym / noght but good
                                
                                  But finally / thus atte laste it stood
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                                  That ffortune wolde / þat he moste twynne
                                
                                  Out of that place / which þat I was Inne
                                
                                  Wher me was wo / that is no question
                                
                                  I kan nat make of it discripsion
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                                  ffor o thyng dare I tellen boldely
                                
                                  I knowe / what is the peyne of deeth ther by
                                
                                  Swich harme I felte / for I ne myghte bileue
                                
                                  So on a day / of me he took his leue
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                                  So sorwefully eek that I wende verraily
                                
                                  That he had felt as muche harm as I
                                
                                  Whan þat I herde hym speke / and saugh his hewe
                                
                                  But nathelees / I thoughte / he was so trewe
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                                  And eek þat he / repaire sholde ageyn
                                
                                  With Inne a litel while / sooth to seyn
                                
                                  And reson wolde eek that he moste go
                                
                                  ffor his honour / as ofte it happeth so
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                                  That I made vertu / of necessitee
                                
                                  And took it wel / syn þat it moste be
                                
                                  As I best myghte / I hidde fro hym my sorwe
                                
                                  And took hym by the hond / seint Iohn to borwe
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                                  And seyde hym thus / lo I am youres al
                                
                                  Beth swich / as I to yow / haue been and shal
                                
                                  What he answerde / it nedeth noght reherce
                                
                                  Who kan sey bet than he / who kan do werse
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                                  Whan he hath al seyd / thanne hath he doon
                                
                                  Therfore bihoueth hire / a ful long spoon
                                
                                  That shal ete with a feend / thus herde I seye
                                
                                  So atte laste / he moste forth his weye
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                                  And forth he fleeth / til he cam ther hym leste
                                
                                  Whan it cam / hym to purpos / for to reste
                                
                                  I trowe / he hadde / thilke text in mynde
                                
                                  That alle thyng repeirynge to his kynde

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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 329
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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