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

                                
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                                  Assembled ben his answer for to heere
                                
                                  And afterward þis knight was bode appeere
                                
                                  And þat þe knight schal telle in audience
                                
                                  To euery wight comanded was scilence
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                                  What þing þat worldly wommen louen meest
                                
                                  This knight ne stood nat stille as doþ a beest [folio 104a]  [for 113] 
                                
                                  But to his question anon answerde /
                                
                                  With manly vois þat al þe court/ it herde
                                  Line 1036 
                                
                                  My liege lady generally quod he /
                                
                                  Womman desireþ to haue soueraynte
                                
                                  As wel ouer hir housbonde and hire loue
                                
                                  And for to be in maystrie him aboue
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                                  þis is ȝoure most desyr þough ȝe me kille
                                
                                  Doþ as you list I am heer at your wille
                                
                                  In al þe court ne was þer wijf ne mayde
                                
                                  Ne wydewe þat contraried þat he sayde
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                                  But seyden he was worþy han his lijf
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word vp sterte þat olde wijf
                                
                                  Which þat þe knight saugh sittyng on þe grene
                                
                                  Mercy quod sche my souerayn lady queene/
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                                  Or þat youre court departe do me right
                                
                                  I taughte þis answere vnto þis knight
                                
                                  ffor which he plighte me his treuþe þere
                                
                                  The firste þing I wolde of him requere
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                                  he wolde it do if it lay in his might
                                
                                  Byfore þe court þan preye I þe sire knight
                                
                                  Quod sche þat þou me take vnto þi wijf
                                
                                  ffor wel þou wost þat I haue kept þy lijf
                                  Line 1056 
                                
                                  If I seye fals sey nay vpon þy fey
                                
                                  This knight answerde allas and weylowey
                                
                                  I wot right wel þat such was my biheste /
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue chese a newe requeste/
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                                  Tak al my good and lat my body go
                                
                                  Nay þan quod sche I schrewe vs boþe tuo
                                
                                  ffor þough þat I be foule and olde and poure
                                
                                  I nolde for al þe metal ne for oure

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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 243
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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