The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  þat saf his wijf þer wist of it no mo
                                
                                  he loued hire most and trusted to hire also
                                
                                  he preyde hire most þat vnto no creature
                                
                                  Sche scholde not tellen of his disfigure
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                                  Sche swor him nay for al þis world to wynne /
                                
                                  Sche wolde do þat vylanye or þat synne [folio 103a]  [for 112] 
                                
                                  To make hire housbonde han so foul a name
                                
                                  ffor reproeuyng of him and foule schame
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                                  But naþeles hir þoughte þat sche dyde
                                
                                  That sche so longe scholde a counseil hyde
                                
                                  hir þought it sat so sore aboute hir herte
                                
                                  That needely som word hir most asterte
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                                  And siþþe sche dorste tellen it no man
                                
                                  Doun to a mareys faste sche ran
                                
                                  Til sche cam þer hir herte was a fyre
                                
                                  And as a bytore bumliþ in þe myre
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                                  Sche leyde hire mouþ vnto þe water doun
                                
                                  Bewreye me nought þou water with þy soun
                                
                                  Quod sche to þe I telle it and nomo
                                
                                  Myn housebonde haþ longe asses eeres tuo
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                                  Now is myn herte al hool now it is oute
                                
                                  I might no lenger kepe it out of doute
                                
                                  here may ȝe see þough we a tyme abyde
                                
                                  Yet out it moot we mowe no counseil hyde
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                                  The remenant of þe tale if ye wol heere
                                
                                  Redeþ Ovyde and ȝe may it leere
                                
                                  This knight of which my tale is specially
                                
                                  Whan þat he saugh he mighte nought come þerby
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                                  þis is to seye what wommen louen most
                                
                                  Wiþinne his herte sorwful was þe gost
                                
                                  But home he goþ he mighte nought soiourne
                                
                                  þe day was come þat homward most he tourne
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                                  And in his way it happed him to ryde
                                
                                  In alle his care vnder a forest syde
                                
                                  Wher he saugh on one daunce go
                                
                                  Of ladyes xxiiij. and ȝit mo

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 241
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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