The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 360] 
                                  
                                  And happed a-lone as sche was borne
                                
                                  He sawhe a maiden walkinge him be-forne
                                
                                  Of whiche maiden maugreue hire hede
                                
                                  be verrei force he raft hir hir maidenhede
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                                  For wiche oppression was suche clamoure
                                
                                  And suche pursuyt vnto kinge Arthoure
                                
                                  That dampned was þis knyht for to be dede
                                
                                  Be cours of lawe and scholde haue lost his hede
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                                  Parauenture suche was þe statute þo
                                
                                  Bot þat þe queene and oþer ladies mo
                                
                                  So longe preide þe kinge of grace
                                
                                  Til he his him graunted in þe place
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                                  And ȝaue to þe qwene al att hir will
                                
                                  To chese weþer sche wolde him saue or spill
                                
                                  The queen þonked þe kinge wiþ al here myht
                                
                                  And after þis þus spak sche to þe knyht
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                                  Whan þat sche seihe her time vpon a daye
                                
                                  Thou stondest ȝit quod sche in suche araye
                                
                                  þat of þi lyf ȝit hast þou no surte
                                
                                  .I. graunte þe lif; if þu canst tel me
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                                  what þinge is þat wemmen moste desiren
                                
                                  Be war and kepe þi nekke bone from yren
                                
                                  And if þou can nouȝt tel it me anone
                                
                                  Ȝit wil .I. ȝeue þe leue for to gone
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                                  A twelmoþ and a daie to seke and lere
                                
                                  An ansewere sufficiant in þis matier
                                
                                  And surte wil .I. haue ar þat þou pace
                                
                                  Thi body for to ȝelden in þis place
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                                  Woo was þis knyht and sorwful he sikeþ
                                
                                  Bot whate he may nouht do al as him likeþ
                                
                                  And att þe last he chase him for to wende [folio 98a] 
                                
                                  An com aȝeine riht att þe ȝeres ende
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                                  With suche answere as god wold him purueye
                                
                                  And takeþ his leue and wendeþ forþ his weye
                                
                                  He sekeþe euery house and euery place
                                
                                  Where as hopeþ for to finde grace

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 239
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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