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

                                
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                                  That is betwyx an husbonde and his wif
                                
                                  A ȝere and more lasted þis blisfull liff
                                
                                  Til þat þis kniht þe whiche .I. spak of þus
                                
                                  þat of kynred was cleped Arneragus
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                                  Schope him to gone and dwelle a ȝere or tweyne
                                
                                  In yngelond þat cleped eke was Bretayne
                                
                                  To seche in armes worschipe and honoure
                                
                                  For al his luste he sette in suche laboure
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                                  And dwelleþe þere þe boke seiþe þus
                                
                                  Nowe wil .I. stint of þis arnaragus
                                
                                  And speken .I. of Dorigen. his wif
                                
                                  þat loueþ hire husbond as hire hertes lif
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                                  And for his absence wepeþ sche and sykeþ
                                
                                  As done þis noble wives whan hem likeþ
                                
                                  Sche morneþ wake waileþ fasteþ and pleyneþ
                                
                                  Desire of his presence hir so distreineþ
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                                  That al þis wide werld sche sett att nouht
                                
                                  Hire frendes whiche þat knewe hir heue þouht
                                
                                  Comforted hire in al þat euer þei myht or maie
                                
                                  Thei prechen hire þei telen hire nyht and daie
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                                  þat causeles sche sleþe hir self alas
                                
                                  And euer-.I. comford possible in þis cas
                                
                                  þei done to hire with al here bisinesse
                                
                                  And al for to make hire lete hire heuynesse
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                                  Be proces as ȝe knowe wele euerychone
                                
                                  Men Maie so longe graue in þe stone
                                
                                  Til figure þer-inne printed be
                                
                                  So longe haue þei comfort hire þat sche
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                                  Receyuede haþe be hope and be resone
                                
                                  þe emprinteinge of hire constillacione
                                
                                  Thoruhe whiche hire grete sorwe gan eswage
                                
                                  Sche maie not alweie endure suche a rage
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                                  And eke Arnargus in al þis care
                                
                                  Haþe sent hir lettres home in al þis fare.
                                
                                  And þat he wolde come hastely aȝeine [folio 143a] 
                                
                                  Or elles hadde þis sorwe hire hert sleyne

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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 354
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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