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

                                
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                                  ¶ O Teuta queene / thy wifly chastitee
                                
                                  To alle wyues / may a Mirour bee
                                
                                  [. . . . . [[Not in Reg. 18 C ii, lf 154, bk; or Sloane 1685, lf 155, bk; or Harl. 1758, lf 135; or Harl. 7335, lf 151, bk; or Harl. 7333, lf 85 bk, col. 2; or Sloane 1686, lf 205; or Reg. 17 D xv, lf 188, bk (leaf out of Harl. 1239). Not in any Cambr. or Bodl. MS, or Christ|Church.]] 
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] ]
                                
                                  ¶ Thus pleyned Dorigene / a day or tweye
                                
                                  Purposynge euere þat she wolde deye
                                
                                  ¶ But nathelees / vp on the thridde nyght
                                
                                  Hom cam Arueragus / this worthy knyght
                                
                                  And asked hire / why þat she weepe so soore
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                                  And she gan wepen / euer lenger the moore
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod she / þat euere was I born
                                
                                  Thus haue I seyd quod she / thus haue I sworn
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                                  And tolde hym al / as ye han herd bifore
                                
                                  It nedeth nat reherce it yow namoore
                                
                                  ¶ This housbond with glad cheere / in frendly wise
                                
                                  Answerde and seyde / as I shal yow deuyse
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                                  ¶ Is ther oght ellis dorigen / but this
                                
                                  ¶ Nay nay quod she / god help 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 perauenture / 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 þat 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 of deeth
                                
                                  That neuere whil thee lasteth / lyf ne breeth
                                
                                  [To no [Rats.]  [folio 163b] ] wight tel thow / of this auenture
                                
                                  [As [Rats.] ] 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 clepyd / a Squyer and a mayde
                                
                                  Goth forth anon with Dorigen / he sayde

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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 373
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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