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

                                
                                  And if so be þou wolt not do me grace
                                
                                  Or if my destyne be schape so
                                
                                  That I schal needes haue oon of hem tuo
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                                  As sende me him that most desireth me
                                
                                  Biholde goddesse of clene chastite
                                
                                  The bittre teeres þat on my cheekes falle
                                
                                  Syn þou art maiden and kepere of vs alle
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                                  My maydenhode þou kepe and wel conserue
                                
                                  And whil I lyue a maide I wol ȝou serue
                                
                                  ¶ The fires brennen vpo þe auter cleer
                                
                                  Whil Emelye was þus in hire preyer
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                                  But sodeinly sche saugh a sighte queynte
                                
                                  ffor right anon on of þe fyres queynte
                                
                                  And quiked agayn and after þat anon
                                
                                  That oþer fyr was queint and al a-gon
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                                  And as it queinte it made a whistlinge
                                
                                  As don þese wete brondes in here brennynge / [folio 33b] 
                                
                                  And at þe brondes ende out ran anon
                                
                                  As it were bloody dropes many on
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                                  ffor which so sore a-gast was Emelye
                                
                                  That sche was ful ny mad and gan to crie
                                
                                  ffor sche ne wiste what it signefied
                                
                                  But oonly for þe feer þus haþ sche cried
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                                  And weepe þat it was pite for to heere
                                
                                  And þer with al Diane gan appeere
                                
                                  With bowe in hand right as an hunteresse
                                
                                  And seyde doughter stynt þin heuynesse
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                                  Among þe goddes heigh it is affermed
                                
                                  And by eterne word writen and confermed
                                
                                  Thou schalt be wedded vnto oon of þo
                                
                                  þat han for þe So mochel care and wo
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                                  And vnto which of hem I may not telle
                                
                                  ffar-wel for I ne may no lenger dwelle
                                
                                  The fyres which þat on myn auter brenne
                                
                                  Schul þe declare ar þat ȝe gon henne /
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                                  Thin auenture of loue as in þis caas

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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 67
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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