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

                                
                                     [6-text p 523] 
                                  
                                  ffor which in fewe wordes sayde he þus
                                
                                  Ma dame seiþ to ȝoure lord Arneragus
                                
                                  þat seþyns I se þis grete gentilnes /
                                
                                  To ȝou and ek I se wel ȝoure distres
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                                  þen ȝe to me þus schulde breke ȝoure trouþe
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                                  Certes me þinkeþ it were right gret rouþe [[spurious 1529]] 
                                
                                  I haue wel leuer euer to suffre wo
                                
                                  þen I departe þe loue betwixe ȝou tuo
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                                  I ȝou relesse ma dame in to ȝoure hand
                                
                                  Quyte euery surement and euery band
                                
                                  That ȝe han made to me as here byforn
                                
                                  Siþens þilke tyme that ȝe were born
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                                  My trouþe I plight I schal ȝou neuer repreue
                                
                                  Of no biheste and here I take my leue /
                                
                                  As of þe trewest and þe beste wyf
                                
                                  þat euer ȝit/ I knew in al my lyf
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                                  But euery wight be war of hire byheste
                                
                                  On Dorigen remembreþ atte leste /
                                
                                  Thus can a squier don a gentil dede
                                
                                  As wel as can a knight wiþouten drede
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                                  Sche þanked him vppon hir knees al bare
                                
                                  And home vnto hire housbonde is sche fare [folio 170b] 
                                
                                  And tolde hem alle as ȝe han herde me sayde
                                
                                  And be ȝe siker he was so wel a-payde /
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                                  þat it were inpossible to write /
                                
                                  What schulde I lengere of þis cas endite /
                                
                                  Arneragus and dorigen his wijff
                                
                                  In souerayn blisse leden forþ here lyff
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                                  Neuer eft ne was þer anger hem betwene
                                
                                  he cherisscheþ hire as þough sche were a quene
                                
                                  And sche was to him trewe for euermore
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                                  Aurelius þat his cost haþ al forlore
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                                  Curseþ þe tyme þat euer he was y-born
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                                  ffor certes he seiþ I am forlorn [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  Allas quod he allas þat I behight
                                
                                  Of pured gold a þousand pound of wight/

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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 374
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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