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

                                
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                                  O Teuta queene / thy wyfly chastitee [Teuta / Illicorum Regina & cetera.] 
                                
                                  To alle wyues / may a Mirour bee
                                
                                  The same thyng / I seye of Bilyea [¶ Memorandum strato regulus. ¶ Vidi & omnes pene Barbares capitulo .xxvjo. primi. ¶ Item Cornelia & cetera. ¶ Imitentur go nupte Theanam / Cleobiliam / Gorgim [[ or Gorgun]]  / Thymodiam / Claudias atque Cornelias / in fine libri primi.] 
                                
                                  Of Rodogone / and eek Valeria
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                                  ¶ Thus pleyne Dorigene / a day or tweye
                                
                                  Purposynge euere / that she wolde deye
                                
                                  ¶ But nathelees / vpon the thridde nyght
                                
                                  Hoom cam Arueragus / this worthy knyght
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                                  And asked hire / why that she weepe so soore
                                
                                  And she gan wepen / euer lenger the moore
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod she / that euere I was born
                                
                                  Thus haue I seyd quod she / thus haue I sworn
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                                  And toold hym al / as ye han herd bifore [¶ Singulas has historias & plures hanc materiam concernentes recitat beatus Ieronimus contra Iouinianum in primo suo libro capitulo .39o.] 
                                
                                  It nedeth nat reherce it yow namoore
                                
                                  ¶ This housbonde / with glad chiere in freendly wyse
                                
                                  Answerde and seyde / as I shal yow deuyse
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                                  Is ther oght elles Dorigen / but this? [folio 135b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Nay nay quod she / god helpe me so as wys
                                
                                  This is to muche / and it were goddes wille
                                
                                  ¶ Ye wyf quod he / lat slepen that is stille
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                                  It may be wel / parauenture yet to day
                                
                                  Ye shul youre trouthe / holden by my fay
                                
                                  ffor god so wisly / haue mercy vp on me
                                
                                  I hadde wel leuere / ystiked for to be
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                                  ffor verray loue / which that I to yow haue
                                
                                  But if ye sholde / youre trouthe kepe and saue
                                
                                  Trouthe / is the hyeste thyng þat man may kepe
                                
                                  But with that word / he brast anon to wepe
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                                  And seyde / I yow forbede / vp peyne deeth
                                
                                  That neuere / whil thee lasteth / lyf ne breeth
                                
                                  To no wight telle thou of this auenture
                                
                                  As I may best I wol my wo endure
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                                  Ne make / no contenance of heuynesse
                                
                                  That folk/ of yow / may demen harm or gesse
                                
                                  ¶ And forth / he cleped / a squier and a mayde
                                
                                  Gooth forth anon / with Dorigen he sayde

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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 356
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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