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

                                
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                                  That louyt the as his owene hertis lyf
                                
                                  Nothing luste hym to be ymaginatyf
                                
                                  ȝif ony wight hadde spoke whil he was oute
                                
                                  To hire of loue he hadde of it no doute
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                                  He not entendyth to no swich matere
                                
                                  But dauncith Iustyth makyth hire good chere
                                
                                  And thus in Ioye & blysse I leete hem dwelle
                                
                                  And of the sike Aurelyus I wele ȝow telle
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                                  ¶ In langure & in turnemen furyus
                                
                                  Two ȝeer & moore lay wreche aurelyus
                                
                                  Er ony foote he myȝte on erthe goon
                                
                                  Ne confort in this tyme ne hadde he noon
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                                  Saue of his brothir which that was a clerk
                                
                                  He knew of al this wo & al this werk
                                
                                  ffor to noon othir creature certeyn
                                
                                  Of this matere he durste no word seyn
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                                  Vndyr his brest he bar it sore [folio 292a] 
                                
                                  And so fer forth it greuede hym the moore [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  Than euere dede Pamplius or Galatheene
                                
                                  His brest was sor with-outyn for to sene
                                
                                  But in his herte ay was the arwe kene
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                                  And weel ȝe knowe that of a sursanure
                                
                                  In surgerye is parlious the cure
                                
                                  But men myȝte tuche the arwe or come therby
                                
                                  His brothir wep & waylede pryuyly
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                                  Til at the laste hym fil in remembraunce
                                
                                  That whil he was at orlionys in fraunce
                                
                                  As ȝonge clerkis that been likerous
                                
                                  To rendyn artis that been curious
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                                  Sekin in eueri halk & euery herne
                                
                                  Particuler sciencis for to lerne
                                
                                  He hym remembrede that vp-on a day
                                
                                  At orlionys in stodie he say
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                                  Of magyk naturel whiche that his felawe
                                
                                  That was that tyme a bacheler of lawe [nota bacularium] 
                                
                                  Al were he there to lerne a nothir craft
                                
                                  Hadde priuyly vp on his deske laft

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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 341
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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