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

                                
                                     [6-text p 364] 
                                  
                                  Assembelede been his answerys for to here
                                
                                  And aftyrward þis knyȝt was bode to pere
                                
                                  To euery wyȝt was comaundede silence
                                
                                  And þat þe knyȝt schulde telle in audyence
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                                  What thyng þat wordely women louyn best
                                
                                  The knyȝt stod not stille as a beest
                                
                                  But to his questioun a-non answerde
                                
                                  With manly voys þat al þe court it herde
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                                  Myn lige lady generally quod he
                                
                                  Wemen desyryn to han souereynte
                                
                                  As wel ouyr hire husbondis as ouer hire hove
                                
                                  And for to been in maystrye hem a-boue
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                                  This is þe moste desyr thow ȝe me kylle
                                
                                  Doth as ȝow leste I am al at ȝoure wille
                                
                                  In al þe court ne was þere wif ne mayde
                                
                                  Ne wedewe contraryede þat he sayde
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                                  But seydyn þat he was worthi to han his lyf
                                
                                  And with that word vp sterte þe olde wyf
                                
                                  Whiche þat þe knyȝt saw syttynge on þe grene [folio 225a] 
                                
                                  Mercy quod sche myn souereyn lady quene
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                                  Er þat ȝoure court departe doth me ryght
                                
                                  I taughte this answere to þe knyth
                                
                                  ffor which he plyȝte me his trouthe þere
                                
                                  The fyrste thyng þat I wolde hym requere
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                                  He wolde it do ȝif it lay in his myȝt
                                
                                  By-fore þe court þanne preye I þe syre knyȝt
                                
                                  Quod sche þat þou me take on to þyn wyf
                                
                                  ffor weel þou wist þat I haue kept þyn lyf
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                                  ȝif I seye fals say nay vp-on þy fey
                                
                                  This knyȝt answerde allas & weyleawey
                                
                                  I wot ryȝt wel þat swich was myn beheste
                                
                                  ffor goddys loue as ches a newe requeste
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                                  Tak al myn good & lat myn body goo
                                
                                  Nay þanne quod sche I be schrewe vs boþe too
                                
                                  ffor þow I be foul old & pore
                                
                                  I nolde for al þe metal ne for ore

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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 197
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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