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

                                
                                     [6-text p 523] 
                                  
                                  ffor which in fewe wordys seyde he thus
                                
                                  Madame sythe to ȝoure lord Arueragus
                                
                                  That sithe I se his grete gentillesse
                                
                                  To ȝow & eek I se wel ȝoure distresse
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                                  That he were leuere han schame & that were routhe
                                
                                  Than ȝe to me schulde breke thus ȝoure trouthe
                                
                                  I haue wel leuere euere to suffere wo
                                
                                  Than I departe the loue by-twixe ȝow two
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                                  I ȝow relese madame in-to ȝoure hond
                                
                                  Quyt euery surement & euery bond
                                
                                  That ȝe han mad to me as here be-forn
                                
                                  Sith thylke tyme which that ȝe were born
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                                  Myn trouthe I  [[ly first hi]] plyghte I schal ȝow neuere re-preue [folio 297b] 
                                
                                  Of no beheste & here I take myn leeue
                                
                                  As ofthe treweste & the beste wyf
                                
                                  That euere ȝit I knew in al myn lyf
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                                  But euery wif be war of hire byheste
                                
                                  On Dorigene / remembr[i]th at the leste
                                
                                  Thus can a squyer doon a gentyl deede
                                
                                  As weel as kan a knyȝt / with-outyn drede
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                                  ¶ Sche thankede hym vp-on hire kneis al bare
                                
                                  And hom vn-to hire husbonde is sche fare
                                
                                  And told hym al as ȝe han herd me seyd/
                                
                                  And be ȝe sykyr / he was so weel apayed
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                                  That weere impossible me to wryte
                                
                                  What schulde I lengere / of this cas endyte
                                
                                  Arueragus & Dorygene / his wyf
                                
                                  In souereyn blysse leedyn forth here lyf
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                                  Neuere eft ne was there angyr hem be-twene
                                
                                  He cherysseth hire ryȝt as sche were a queene
                                
                                  And sche was with hym trewe [[first trowe]]  for eueremoore
                                
                                  Of these two folk ȝe gete of me no more
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                                  ¶ Aurelyus that his cost hath al for-lorn
                                
                                  Cursith the tyme that euere was he born
                                
                                  Allas quod he allas that I be-hyȝte
                                
                                  Of purede gold a thousent pound of wighte

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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 353
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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