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

                                
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                                  The odour of floures / and the fresshe sight
                                
                                  Wolde han maked / any herte lighte
                                
                                  That euere was born / but if to greet siknesse
                                
                                  Or to greet sorwe / helde it in destresse
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                                  So ful it was / of beautee with plesaunce
                                
                                  At after dyner / gonne they to daunce
                                
                                  And synge also / saue Dorigen allone
                                
                                  Which made alwey / hir compleynt and hir mone
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                                  [ [Rats.]  [folio 156b] ffo]r she ne saugh hym / on the daunce go
                                
                                  That was hir housbonde / and hir loue also
                                
                                  But nathelees / she moste a tyme abyde
                                
                                  And with good hope / lete hir sorwe slyde
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                                  ¶ Vp on this daunce / amonges othere men
                                
                                  Daunced a Squier / bifore Dorigen
                                
                                  That fressher was / and Iolier of array
                                
                                  As to my doom / than is the Monthe of May
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                                  He syngeth / daunceth / passyng any man
                                
                                  That is / or was / sith þat the world bigan
                                
                                  Ther with he was / if men sholde hym discryue
                                
                                  Oon of the beste farynge man / on lyue
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                                  Yong strong right vertuous / and riche and wys
                                
                                  And wel biloued / and holden in gret prys
                                
                                  And shortly / if the sothe I tellen shal
                                
                                  Vnwityng of this Dorigen at al
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                                  This lusty Squier / seruant to Venus
                                
                                  Which / that yclepid was Aurelius
                                
                                  Hadde loued hire / best of any creature
                                
                                  Two yeer and moore / as was his auenture
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                                  But neuere dorste he tellen hire / his greuance
                                
                                  With outen coppe / he drank al his penance
                                
                                  He was despeyred / no thyng dorste he seye
                                
                                  Saue in his songes / som what wolde he wreye
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                                  His wo / as in a general compleynyng
                                
                                  He seyde he louede / and was biloued no thyng
                                
                                  Of which matere / made he many layes
                                
                                  Songes / compleyntes / roundels / vyrelayes

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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 358
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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