The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 350] 
                                  
                                  Tyl trewely we haddyn swich a dalyaunce
                                
                                  This clerk & I þat of myn puruyaunce
                                
                                  I spak to hym & seyde how þat he
                                
                                  ȝif I were wedewe he schulde wedde me
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                                  ffor serteynly I seye for no bobaunce
                                
                                  ȝit was I neuere with-oute puruyaunce
                                
                                  Of mariage & more thyngis eek [folio 218b] 
                                
                                  I holde a mousys herte not worth a leek
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                                  That hath but on hole to sterte to
                                
                                  And that fayle thanne is al I-do
                                
                                  I bere hym on honde he enchauntede me
                                
                                  Myn dame taughte me þat sotylete
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                                  And ek I seyde I mette of hym al nyȝt
                                
                                  He wolde a slayn me as I lay vp ryȝt
                                
                                  And al myn bed was ful of veray blood
                                
                                  But ȝit I hope þat he schal do me good
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                                  ffor blood be-tokenyth gold as me was tauȝt
                                
                                  And al was fals I dremede of it ryght nauȝt
                                
                                  But I folwede ay myn damys lore
                                
                                  As wel of this as of oþere thyngis more
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                                  But now syre lat se what schal I seyn
                                
                                  A-ha by god I haue myn tale a-geyn
                                
                                  What that myn husbonde was on bere
                                
                                  I weep & made a sory chere
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                                  As wyuys motyn for it is vsage
                                
                                  And with myn couerechef couerede myn visage
                                
                                  But for þat I was purueyed of a make
                                
                                  I wepte but smal & þat I vndyr-take
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                                  To cherche was myn husbond o born on morwe
                                
                                  With negheboris þat for hym madyn sorwe
                                
                                  And Iankyn oure klerk was on of thoo
                                
                                  As help me god whan that I saw hym goo
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                                  Aftyr þe beere me thoughte he hadde a payre
                                
                                  Of leggis & feet so clene & fayre
                                
                                  That al myn herte I ȝaf vnto his hold
                                
                                  He was I trowe twenty wyntyr old

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 183
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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