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

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And whil the Orgues / maden melodie Line 134 To god allone / in herte thus sang she O lord / my soule / and eek my body gye Vnwemmed / lest that it confounded be Line 137 And for his loue / that dyde / vp-on a tree Euery seconde / and thridde day she faste Ay biddynge / in hire orisons ful faste Line 140
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The nyght cam / and to bedde moste she gon Line 141 With hire housbonde / as ofte is the manere And pryuely / to hym she seyde anon O sweete / and wel biloued spouse deere Line 144 Ther is a conseil / and ye wolde it heere Which that right fayn / I wolde vn-to yow seye So that ye swere / ye shul me nat biwreye Line 147
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¶ Valerian / gan faste vn-to hire swere [folio 191b] That for no cas / ne thyng/ that myghte be He sholde neuere mo / biwreyen here And thanne at erst to hym thus seyde she Line 151 I haue an Aungel / which that loueth me That with greet loue / wher so I wake or sleepe Is redy ay / my body for to kepe Line 154
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And if he / may feelen out of drede Line 155 That ye me touche // or loue in vileynye He right anon / wol sle yow with the dede And in youre yowthe / thus ye sholden dye Line 158 And if that ye / in clene loue me gye He wol yow louen as me / for youre clennesse And shewen yow / his ioye and his brightnesse Line 161
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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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