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

                                
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                                  And chese hire of his owene autoritee
                                
                                  ffor loue is blynd alday & may not see
                                
                                  And whan that he was in his bedde brought
                                
                                  He portreyede in his herte & in his thought
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                                  Hire frossche beute & hyre age tendere
                                
                                  Hire myddyl smal & hire armys longe & sklendere
                                
                                  Hire wise gouernaunce / hire gentillesse
                                
                                  Hire womanly berynge & hire sadnesse
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                                  And whan that he on hire was condessendit
                                
                                  Hym thouȝte his choys myȝte not been a-mendit
                                
                                  ffor whan that he hym selue concludede hadde [folio 265b] 
                                
                                  Hym thouȝte eche othere manys wit so badde
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                                  That impossible it were to replye
                                
                                  A-geyn his choys that was his fantassie
                                
                                  Hise frendis sente he tho [[to altered to tho]]  at his instaunce
                                
                                  And preyede hem to do hym that plesaunce
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                                  That hastely they wolde don hym come
                                
                                  He wolde abrege hire lordschepe alle en some
                                
                                  Nedyth namore for hym to goon ne ryde
                                
                                  He [[e corrected]]  was a-poyntid there he wolde a-bide
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                                  Placebo cam & ek hise frendis soone
                                
                                  And aldyrferst he had hem alle a boone
                                
                                  That noone of hem / noone argumentis make
                                
                                  Ageyn the purpos which that he hath take
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                                  Which purpos was plesaunt to god seyde he
                                
                                  And verray ground of his prosperitee
                                
                                  He seyde there was a maydyn in the toun
                                
                                  Which that of beute hadde greet renoun
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                                  Al weere it so sche weere of smal degre
                                
                                  Suffiseth hym hire ȝouthe & hire beutee
                                
                                  Whiche mayde he seyde he wolde han to his wyf
                                
                                  To leede in ese & holynesse his lyf
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                                  And thankede god that he myȝte han hire al
                                
                                  That no wyȝt of his blysse partyn schal
                                
                                  And preyede hem to laboure in this nede
                                
                                  And schapen that he fayle nat to speede

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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 285
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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