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

                                
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                                  In word ne werk/ as fer as I haue wit/
                                
                                  I wol been his / to whom þat I am knyt
                                
                                  Taak this for fynal answere / as of me
                                
                                  But after that in pley thus seyde she
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                                  ¶ Aurelie quod she / by heighe god aboue [folio 130b] 
                                
                                  Yet wolde I graunte yow / to been youre loue
                                
                                  Syn I yow se / so pitously complayne
                                
                                  Looke what day / that endelong Britayne
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                                  Ye remoeue alle the Rokkes / stoon by stoon
                                
                                  That they ne lette / shipe ne boot to goon
                                
                                  I seye / whan ye han maad / the coost so clene
                                
                                  Of Rokkes / that ther nys no stoon ysene
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                                  Thanne wol I / loue yow best of any man
                                
                                  Haue heer my trouthe / in al þat euere I kan
                                
                                  ¶ Is ther noon oother grace / in yow quod he.
                                
                                  ¶ No / by that lord quod she that maked me
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                                  ffor wel I woot þat it shal neuer bityde
                                
                                  Lat swiche folies / out of youre herte slyde
                                
                                  What deyntee sholde a man / han in his lyf
                                
                                  ffor to go loue / another mannes wyf
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                                  That hath hir body / whan so þat hym liketh
                                
                                  ¶ Aurelius / ful ofte soore siketh
                                
                                  Wo was Aurelie / whan þat he this herde
                                
                                  And with a sorweful herte / he thus answerde
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                                  ¶ Madame quod he / this were an inpossible
                                
                                  Thanne moot I dye / of sodeyn deth horrible
                                
                                  And with that word / he turned hym anon
                                
                                  Tho coome / hir othere freendes many oon
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                                  And in the Aleyes / romeden vp and doun
                                
                                  And no thyng wiste / of this conclusioun
                                
                                  But sodeynly / bigonne reuel newe
                                
                                  Til that the brighte sonne / loste his hewe
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                                  ffor Thorisonte / hath reft the sonne his lyght
                                
                                  This is as muche to seye / as it was nyght
                                
                                  And hoom they goon / in ioye and in solas
                                
                                  Saue oonly / wrecche Aurelius allas

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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 343
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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