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

                                
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                                  And bringeþ hire to such a place anon
                                
                                  þey tooke her leue and on þair way þey gon
                                
                                  But þey ne wiste why sche þider wente
                                
                                  he nolde no wight telle hire entente
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  . . . . . [[Not in Arch. Seld. B. 14. These lines known only in the Ellesmere MS.]] 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  This squyer which þat hight Aurelyus
                                
                                  On Dorigen which þat was so amerous
                                  Line 1500 
                                
                                  Of aduenture happed hire to mete
                                
                                  Amyd þe toun right in þe quyke strete
                                
                                  As sche was boun to gon þe wey forþ right
                                
                                  Toward þe gardyn þer as sche hadde hight
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  And he was to þe gardynward also
                                
                                  ffor wel he spyed whan sche wolde go
                                
                                  Out of hir hous to eny maner place
                                
                                  But þus þey mette of auenture or of grace
                                  Line 1508 
                                
                                  And he saluyþ hire wiþ glad entent
                                
                                  And axed of hire whider þat sche wente / [folio 170a] 
                                
                                  And sche answerde half as sche were mad
                                
                                  vnto þe gardyn as myn housbonde bad
                                  Line 1512 
                                
                                  My trouþe for to holde allas allas
                                
                                  Aurelius gan wonder of þis caas
                                
                                  And in his herte had gret compassion
                                
                                  Of hire and of hire lamentacion
                                  Line 1516 
                                
                                  And of Arneragus þe worþy knight
                                
                                  And bad hire holde al þat sche hight
                                
                                  So loþ he was his wijf schulde breke hir trouþe
                                
                                  And in his herte he caste of þis gret rouþë [[blots over e later]] 
                                
                                  Considerynge þe beste on euery syde /
                                
                                  That fro his luste were him better abyde
                                
                                  Than don so heigh a cherles wrecchednes
                                
                                  Aȝeins fraunchise and aȝein al gentilnes

                                  Line 1524

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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 373
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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