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

                                
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                                  That saue his wyf þere wiste of it no mo
                                
                                  He louede hyre most & trostid to hyre also
                                
                                  He preyede hyre þat to no cryature
                                
                                  Sche schulde telle of his disfygure
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                                  Sche swor hym nay for al this world to wynne
                                
                                  Sche nolde not do þat vilany or synne
                                
                                  Go make hyre husbonde to haue so foul a name
                                
                                  Sche nele it telle for hyre owene schame
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                                  But neuere-þe-les hire thouȝte þat sche dyde
                                
                                  That sche so longe a conseylde hyde
                                
                                  Hire thouȝte it swal so sore a-boute hyre herte
                                
                                  That nedely sum word muste a-sterte
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                                  And sythe sche durste telle it to no man
                                
                                  Doun to a mareys faste by sche ran
                                
                                  Tyl sche cam þere hire herte was a fyre [folio 224a] 
                                
                                  And as a bitore bumbith in þe myre
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                                  Sche leyde hyre mouth to þe watyr adoun
                                
                                  Be-wrey me not þou watyr with thyn soun
                                
                                  Quod sche to þe I telle it & no mo
                                
                                  Myn husbonde hath longe erys too
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                                  Now is al myn herte hol now is it oute
                                
                                  I myȝte no lengere kepe it out of doute
                                
                                  Here may ȝe se þow we no tyme abyde
                                
                                  ȝit out mote it we can no conseyl hyde
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                                  The remenaunt of þe tale ȝif ȝe wele here
                                
                                  Rede ouyde & þere mowe ȝe it leere
                                
                                  This knyȝt of which myn tale is specyally
                                
                                  Whan he saw he myȝte not come þerby
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                                  This is to seye what wemen louyn most
                                
                                  With-inne his brest full sorwefully was þe gost
                                
                                  But hom he goth he myȝte not soiorne
                                
                                  The day was come that homward muste he turne
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                                  And In hyse wey as happede hym to ryde
                                
                                  In al hise care vndyr a forest syde
                                
                                  Where as he saw vp-on a daunce go
                                
                                  Of ladyis foure & twenty & ȝit mo

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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 195
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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