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

                                
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                                  A trewe wigh & a thef thynkyn nat oon
                                
                                  And whan he saugh the thyng so fer a-goon
                                
                                  That I hadde grauntede fully myn looue [folio 284a] 
                                
                                  In swich a gise as it was seyd a-boue
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                                  And ȝeuyn hym myn trewe herte as fre
                                
                                  As he swoor he ȝaf his herte to me
                                
                                  A-non this tigre ful of doubilnesse
                                
                                  ffil on hise kneis with so deuout humblesse
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  With so high reuerence as bi hire cheere
                                
                                  So lyk a gentil louere of manere
                                
                                  So rauyschid as it semede for the Ioye
                                
                                  That neuere Troylis Ne parys of Troye
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                                  Iason certis ne non oþer man
                                
                                  Syn lameth was / þat aldyrferst be-gan
                                
                                  To louyn too as wrytyn folk by-forn
                                
                                  Ne neuere syn the fyrste man was born
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                                  Ne coude man by twenty thousent part
                                
                                  Countyrfete the sophemys of his art
                                
                                  Ne were worthi onbokele his galoche
                                
                                  There doubilnesse or feynynge schulde aproche
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                                  Ne so coude thanke a whit as he dede me
                                
                                  His manere was an heuene for to se
                                
                                  To ony weman were [s]che neuere so wys
                                
                                  So peyntede he & kembede at poynt deuys
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                                  As weel hise wordis as hise contenaunce
                                
                                  And I louede hym for his obeysaunce
                                
                                  And for the trouthe I demede in his herte
                                
                                  That ȝif so were that ony thyng hym smerte
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                                  Al were it neuere so lyte & I it wiste
                                
                                  Me thouȝte I felte deth myn herte twyste
                                
                                  And schortely so fer forth this thyng went
                                
                                  That myn wil was his willis instrument
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                                  This is to seye myn wil obeyede his wil
                                
                                  In alle thynge as fer as resoun fil
                                
                                  Kepynge the boundis of myn worchepe euere
                                
                                  Ne neuere hadde I thyng so leef ne leuere

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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 324
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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