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

                                
                                     [6-text p 521] 
                                  
                                  O teuta queen in þy wyfly chastite
                                
                                  To alle wyfes may a myrour be
                                
                                  . . .  [no gap in the MS: these lines] 
                                
                                   . . . . [known only in Ellesmere MS.] 
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  þus playned Dorigen a day or tweye
                                
                                  Purposed euere þat sche wolde deye
                                
                                  But naþeles vpon þe þridde night
                                
                                  hom cam arneragus þe worþy knight
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  And asked hire why þat sche weep so sore
                                
                                  And sche gan weepen euer lenger þe more
                                
                                  Allas quod sche þat euer was I born
                                
                                  þus haue I seyd quod he þus haue I sworn
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  I told him alle as ȝe han herde bifore
                                
                                  It needeþ nouȝt/ to rehersen it nomore
                                
                                  This housbond wiþ glad cheere in sondry wise /
                                
                                  Answerd and sayde as I schal ȝou deuyse / [folio 169b] 
                                
                                  Is þer ought elles Dorigen but þis
                                
                                  Nay nay quod sche god help me so as wis
                                
                                  This is to meche and it were goddes wille
                                
                                  ȝe wyf quod he let slepe þat is stille
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  It may be wel ȝit peraduenture to say
                                
                                  ȝe schullen ȝour trouþe holden by my fay
                                
                                  ffor god so wisly helpe me
                                
                                  I hadde wel leuere y-stiked for to be /
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  ffor verray loue which þat I to ȝou haue
                                
                                  But if ȝe schulde ȝoure trouþe saue
                                
                                  Trouþe is ȝe heihest þing þat man may kepe
                                
                                  But wiþ þat word he brast anon to weepe /
                                  Line 1480 
                                
                                  And sayde I ȝou forbede vp payne of deþ
                                
                                  That neuer whiles þe lasteþ lyf and breþ
                                
                                  To no wight telle how þat þis matere /
                                
                                  As I may kepe I wole my woo endere
                                  Line 1484 
                                
                                  Ne make no contynaunce of heuynesse
                                
                                  That folk of ȝou may deme harme or gesse
                                
                                  And forþ he cleped a squyer and a mayde
                                
                                  Goþ forþ anon wiþ Dorigen he sayde /

                                  Line 1488

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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 372
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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