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

                                
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                                  That sleepe / til þat the coghe hath hym awaked
                                
                                  Anon he preyde / strepen hire al naked
                                
                                  He wolde of hire he seyde / han som plesance
                                
                                  He seyde / hir clothes / dide hym encombrance
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  And she obeyeth / be hir lief or looth [folio 147a] 
                                
                                  But lest þat precious folk / be with me wrooth
                                
                                  How þat he wroghte / I dar nat to yow telle
                                
                                  Or wheithir / it thoughte Paradys / or helle
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  But heere I lete hem werken / in hir wise
                                
                                  Til euensong rong and þat they moste arise
                                
                                  Were it by destynee / or by auenture
                                
                                  Were it by Influence / or by nature
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  Or constellacion / that in swich estat
                                
                                  The heuene stood / that tyme fortunat
                                
                                  As for to putte a bille / of Venus werkes
                                
                                  ffor alle thyng hath tyme / as seyn thise clerkes
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  To any womman / for to gete hir loue
                                
                                  I kan nat seye / but grete god aboue
                                
                                  That knoweth / þat noon Act is causelees
                                
                                  He deme of al / for I wol holde my pees
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  ¶ But sooth is this / how þat this fresshe May
                                
                                  Hath taken / swich impression that day
                                
                                  Of pitee / on this syke Damyan
                                
                                  That from hir herte / she ne dryue kan
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  The remembrance / for to doon hym ese
                                
                                  Certeyn thoghte she / whom þat this thyng displese
                                
                                  I rekke nat for here I hym assure
                                
                                  To loue hym best of any creature
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  Thogh he namoore hadde / than his sherte
                                
                                  Loo / pitee renneth soone / in gentil herte
                                
                                  ¶ Heere may ye se / how excellent franchise
                                
                                  In wommen is / whan they hem narwe auyse
                                  Line 1988 
                                
                                  Som tirant is / as ther be many oon
                                
                                  That hath an herte / as hard as is a stoon
                                
                                  Which wolde / han leten steruen / in the place
                                
                                  Wel rather / than han graunted hym hir grace

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 336
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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