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

                                
                                     [6-text p 493] 
                                  
                                  So tenderely eylyth / it [[t corrected]]  eylede me [folio 283b] 
                                
                                  I nyste [[y corrected]]  not what was aduercyte
                                
                                  Tyl I coude fle ful hye vndyr the skye
                                
                                  Tho dwellede a tercelet me faste bye
                                  Line 504 
                                
                                  That semede weel of alle gentillesse
                                
                                  Al weere he ful of tresoun & falsenesse
                                
                                  It was so wrappid vndyr humble chire
                                
                                  And vndyr hewe of trouthe in swych maneere
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                                  Vndyr plesaunce & vndyr bisy pyne
                                
                                  That I not [[a word scratcht out]]  cude a wend he coude feyne
                                
                                  So deepe in greyn he dyede his colourys
                                
                                  Ryȝt as a serpent hid hym vndyr flourys
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                                  Tyl he may seen his tyme for to byte
                                
                                  Rygh so this god of loue this ypocryte
                                
                                  Doth so hise sermonys & obeysauncis
                                
                                  And kepyth in semblaunt alle hise4 cuntenauncys4 [[4_4 corr.]] 
                                
                                  That sounnyn in to gentilesse of loue
                                
                                  As in a toumbe is al the fayrenesse a-boue
                                
                                  And vndir is þe cors swich as ȝe woot
                                
                                  Swich was this ypocryte bothe cold & hoot
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                                  And in this wise he seruede his entent
                                
                                  That saue the feend non wiste what he ment
                                
                                  Til he so longe hadde wepid & compleyned
                                
                                  And manye a ȝeer his seruyse to me feynyd
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                                  Tyl that myn herte to pitous & to nyce
                                
                                  Al innocent of his crounede malyce
                                
                                  ffor-fered of his deth as thoughte me
                                
                                  Vp-on hise othis & hise seuretee
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                                  Grauntede hym loue vp-on this condicioun [[is condicioun corrected]] 
                                
                                  That euere more myn honour & renoun
                                
                                  Were sauyd bothe priue & apert
                                
                                  This is to seyne that aftyr his desert
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                                  I ȝaf hym al myn herte & al myn thought
                                
                                  God wot & he / þat oþerwyse noght
                                
                                  And tok his hert in chong of myn for ay
                                
                                  But soth is seyd goon sithe manye a day

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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 323
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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