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

                                
                                     [6-text p 457] 
                                  
                                  Ȝif that I lye or noon / in this matyre
                                
                                  Mayus that sit with / so benynge a cheere
                                
                                  Hire to byholde it semede fayrye
                                
                                  Queen Ester lokede neuere with swich an eye
                                  Line 1744 
                                
                                  On Assure / so meke a lok hath sche
                                
                                  I may ȝow nat deuyse al hure beutee
                                
                                  But thus meche of hire beute telle I may
                                
                                  That sche was lyk the bryȝte morwe of may
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                                  fful fyld of alle beute & of plesaunce
                                
                                  This Ianewarye is rauyst in a traunce
                                
                                  At euery tyme he lokede on hire face
                                
                                  But in his herte he gan hire manace
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                                  That he that nyght in armys wolde hire streyne
                                
                                  Hardere than euere parys dede Eleyne
                                
                                  But natheles ȝit hadde he greet pitee
                                
                                  That ilke nyȝt offendyn hire muste hee
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                                  And thouȝte allas o tendere creature
                                
                                  Now wolde god ȝe myȝte wel endure
                                
                                  Al myn corage it is so scharp & keene [folio 267b] 
                                
                                  I am a-gast ȝe schul it not susteene
                                  Line 1760 
                                
                                  But god for-beede þat I dede al myn myȝt
                                
                                  Now wolde god [[first good]]  that it were waxe nyght
                                
                                  And that the nyȝt / wolde lastyn euere mo
                                
                                  I wolde that al this peple were a-go
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                                  And fynally he doth al his labour
                                
                                  As he best myghte / sauynge his honour
                                
                                  To haste hem from the meete in subtyl wyse
                                
                                  The tyme cam that resoun was to ryse
                                  Line 1768 
                                
                                  And aftyr that men daunce / & drynkyn faste
                                
                                  And spicis al aboute the hous they caste
                                
                                  And ful of ioye & blysse is euery man
                                
                                  Alle but a squier· hyte Damyan
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                                  The whiche carf by-fore þe knyght manye a day
                                
                                  He was rauysschd on his lady May
                                
                                  That for the verray peyne he was nygh wood
                                
                                  Almost he schulde a swounnede as he stod

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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 289
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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