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

                                
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                                  Assemblede ben his answere for to here
                                
                                  And afterwarde þis knyht was bode a-piere
                                
                                  And þat þe knyht schold tel in audience
                                
                                  To euery. wight commanded was silence
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                                  What þinge þat werldly wemmen louen mest
                                
                                  þis knyht ne stode nouȝt stil as doþe a beste
                                
                                  Bo to þis questione a-none he ansewerde
                                
                                  Wiþ manly voyce þat al þe court it herde
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                                  My liege lady lady general quod he.
                                
                                  Womman desiret to haue souereynte
                                
                                  As wele ouer hir husbonde as hir loue
                                
                                  And for to be in maistre him a-boue
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                                  This ȝowre most desire þouhe ȝe me kill [folio 99b] 
                                
                                  Doþe as ȝowe list .I. am here att ȝoure will
                                
                                  In al þe courte ne was þer wif ne maide
                                
                                  Ne wedowe þat contraried þat he seide
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                                  Bot seyden he was worþi to haue his lyf
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde vpstert þis olde wif
                                
                                  Whiche þat þe knyht sawe sittinge on þe grene
                                
                                  Mercie quod sche Mi souereine ladi qweene
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                                  Ar þat ȝoure Court depart do me riht
                                
                                  .I. tauht þis ansewer vn-to þis knyht
                                
                                  For whiche he pliht me his trouþe þere
                                
                                  The first þinge .I. wolde of him require
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                                  He wolde it do if it lei in his myhte
                                
                                  Be-for þe Court þan praie .I. þe sir knyht
                                
                                  Quod sche þat þu me tak vnto þi wif
                                
                                  For wele þu woste þat .I. haue kepped þi lif
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                                  If .I. saye fals seye soþe vpon þi fey
                                
                                  This knyht ansewerd alas and walawaie
                                
                                  .I. wote riht wele þat suche was my beheste
                                
                                  For goddes loue chese a newe requeste
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                                  Tak al my goode and lat my body go
                                
                                  Nay þan quod sche .I. schrewe vs boþe tuo
                                
                                  For þat .I. be foule olde and pouer
                                
                                  .I. nolde for al þe metal ne for Oer

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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 243
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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