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

                                
                                     [6-text p 508] 
                                  
                                  In word ne in werk as fer as I haue wit /
                                
                                  I wole ben his to whom þat I am knyt [folio 163a] 
                                
                                  But after þat in pleyn þus seyde sche /
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                                  Tak þis for fynal answer as for me /
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                                  Aurely quod sche by hihe god aboue
                                
                                  ȝit wol I graunte ȝou to be ȝoure loue
                                
                                  Seþyns I ȝou se so pitously compleyne /
                                
                                  loke what day þat engelond is Bryteyne /
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                                  ȝe remewe alle þe rokkes ston by stoon
                                
                                  þat þay ne lette schip no boot to goon
                                
                                  I say whan ȝe han made þese costes so clene
                                
                                  Of Rokkes þat þer nys no ston y-sene /
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                                  þan wol I loue ȝou best/ of any man
                                
                                  haue here my trouþe in al þat euer I can
                                
                                  Is þere non oþer grace quod he /
                                
                                  No by þat lord quod sche þat made me
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                                  ffor wel I wot þat þat schal neuer betyde
                                
                                  let such folye out of ȝour herte glyde
                                
                                  What deynte schulde man haue by his lijf
                                
                                  ffor to loue anoþer mannes wyf
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                                  That haþ hir body whan so þat him likeþ
                                
                                  Aurelius ful ofte sore sikeþ /
                                
                                  Wo was aurely whan þat he þis herde /
                                
                                  And wiþ a sorwful herte þus answerde /
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                                  ma dame quod he þis were impossible /
                                
                                  Thenne mot I deye on sodeyn deþ orrible /
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word he torned him anon
                                
                                  þo came hire oþer frendes many oon
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                                  And in þe aleyes romed vp and don
                                
                                  And no þing wiste of þis conclusion
                                
                                  But sodeinly bygan to reuel newe /
                                
                                  Til þat þe brighte sonne loste his hewe /
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                                  ffor thorisowte haþ raft þe sonne his light
                                
                                  þis is as moche to say as it was night
                                
                                  And home þey gon in Ioye and in solas /
                                
                                  Saue oonly wrecched aurelius allas /

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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 359
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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