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

                                
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                                  That slepte tyl that the covhe [[first coghe]]  hath hym a-wakyd
                                
                                  A-non he preyede hire to stryppe hire al nakyd
                                
                                  He wolde of hire he seyde han sum plesaunce
                                
                                  And seyde hire clothis dide hym encumbraunce
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                                  And sche obeyeth be hire lef or loth
                                
                                  But lest the precious folk be with me wroth
                                
                                  How that he wrouȝte I dar not to ȝow telle
                                
                                  Or whethir hire thoughte it paradys or helle
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                                  But heere I lete hem werke in hire wyse
                                
                                  Til euynsong rong & thanne they muste ryse
                                
                                  Were it by desteny or by auenture
                                
                                  Were it by influence or by nature
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                                  Or constellacioun / that in swich estat
                                
                                  The heuene stood / that tyme fortunat
                                
                                  ffor to putte a bille / forth of venus werkis
                                
                                  ffor alle thynge hath tyme / as sey these clerkys
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                                  To ony woman for to geete hire loue
                                
                                  I can not seye but greete god a-boue
                                
                                  That knowith that noon act is causeles
                                
                                  He deeme of alle / for I wil holde myn pees
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  But soth is this how that this frossche May
                                
                                  Hath take swich emprescioun that day
                                
                                  Of pite of this ilke damyan
                                
                                  That from hire herte sche ne dryue can
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                                  This  [[rme altered]] remembraunce for to doon hym ese
                                
                                  Sertayn thouȝte sche / whom that this thyng displese
                                
                                  I rekke not / for here I hym assure
                                
                                  To loue hym best/ of ony criature
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  Thow he namore / hadde than his scherte
                                
                                  Lo pete rennyth sone / in gentyl herte
                                
                                  Heere may ȝe se how excellent fraunchise [folio 270b] 
                                
                                  In wemen is whan they hem weel a-vise
                                  Line 1988 
                                
                                  Sum tyraunt is as theere been manyon
                                
                                  That hath [[h inserted]]  an herte as hard as is a ston
                                
                                  Which wolde a lat hym steruyn in the place
                                
                                  Wel rathere than grauntyn hym hire grace

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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 295
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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