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

                                
                                     [6-text p 507] 
                                  
                                  How he durste not his sorwe telle
                                
                                  But languscht as a furye doth in helle
                                
                                  And deye he muste he seyde as dede Ekko
                                
                                  ffor Narcisus [[sus corrected]]  that durste not telle his wo
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                                  In othere maner than ȝe here me seye
                                
                                  Ne durste he nat to hire his woo be-wreye
                                
                                  Saue that parauenture sumtyme at daunces
                                
                                  There ȝonge folk kepyn here obseruaunces
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                                  It may wel be he lokede on hire face [folio 290a] 
                                
                                  In swich a wyse as men that askyth grace
                                
                                  But no thyng wiste sche of his entente
                                
                                  Nathe-les it happid er they thens wente
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                                  By cause that he was hire neghebour
                                
                                  And was a man of worchepe & honour
                                
                                  And hadde I-knowyn hym of tyme ȝore
                                
                                  They fille in speche & they more & more
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                                  Vn-to his purpos drow aurelius
                                
                                  And whan he saw his tyme he seyde thus
                                
                                  Madame quod he by god that this world maade
                                
                                  So that I wyste it myȝte ȝoure herte glade
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                                  I wolde þat day that ȝoure arueragus
                                
                                  Wente ouyr the se that I Aurelyus
                                
                                  Hadde went there neuere I schulde a comyn a-geyn
                                
                                  ffor weel I woot myn seruyse is in veyn
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                                  My guerdoun is but brestynge of myn herte
                                
                                  Madame rewyth on mynne peynys smerte
                                
                                  ffor with a word ȝe may ne sle & saue
                                
                                  Heere at ȝoure feet god wolde that I were graue
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                                  I ne haue as now no leyser more [[more corrected]]  to seye
                                
                                  Hauyth mercy swete or ellis ȝe do me deye
                                
                                  ¶ Sche gan to lokyn vp on aurelius
                                
                                  Is this ȝoure wil quod sche & seye ȝe thus
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                                  Neuere erst quod sche ne wiste I [[I corrected]]  what ȝe mente
                                
                                  But now [[w corrected]]  Aurelius I knewe ȝoure entente
                                
                                  By-twixe god that ȝaf me soule & lyf
                                
                                  Ne schal I neuere been vntrewe wyf

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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 337
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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