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

                                
                                     [6-text p 522] 
                                  
                                  And bryngith hire to swich a place a-non
                                
                                  They take here leue & on here weye they gon
                                
                                  But they ne wyste why she thidyr wente
                                
                                  He nolde no wight tellyn his entente
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  . . . . . [[Not in any MS in the Brit. Mus., Cambridge or Oxford, or the Helmingham MS. l. 1493-8 known only in the Ellesmere MS.]] 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This squier which that hyȝte aurelyus [folio 297a] 
                                
                                  On Dorigene that was so amerous
                                  Line 1500 
                                
                                  Of auenture happede hire to meete
                                
                                  A-myd the toun rygh[t] in the  [[y altered]] quykkeste strete
                                
                                  As sche was boun to go the woye ful ryȝt
                                
                                  Toward the gardyn there that sche hadde hight
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  And he was to the gardynward also
                                
                                  ffor weel he spyed whan sche woldo go
                                
                                  Out of hire hous to ony maner place
                                
                                  But thus they mette of auenture or grace
                                  Line 1508 
                                
                                  And he saluyth hire with good entente
                                
                                  And axed hire whidyrward sche wente
                                
                                  And sche answerde half as sche were mad
                                
                                  Vn-to the gardyn as myn husbonde bad
                                  Line 1512 
                                
                                  Myn trouthe for to holde allas allas
                                
                                  ¶ Aurelius gan wonderyn of this cas
                                
                                  And in his herte hadde greet compassioun
                                
                                  Of hire & of hire lamentacioun
                                  Line 1516 
                                
                                  And of Arueragus the worthi knight
                                
                                  That bad hire holdyn al that sche hadde hiȝt
                                
                                  So loth hym was his wyf schulde breke hire trouthe
                                
                                  And in his herte he caughte of this greet routhe
                                  Line 1520 
                                
                                  Considerynge the beste on euery syde
                                
                                  That for his lust ȝit were hym leuere a-byde
                                
                                  Than don so high a cherliche wrechedenesse
                                
                                  Agayns fraunchese of alle gentillesse [[sse later]] 
                                  Line 1524

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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 352
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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