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

                                
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                                  þat loueþ þe as his owen hertes lif
                                
                                  No þinge lust him to be ymaginatif
                                
                                  Of any wight had spoke whiles was oute
                                
                                  To hire of loue he maade þere-of no doute
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                                  He nouhte entendeþ to none suche matiere
                                
                                  Bot daunceþ Iustiþ and makeþ good chere
                                
                                  As þus in ioy and blisse .I. late hem dwelle
                                
                                  And of þe swete aurelius wil .I. tell
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                                  In langure and in furious tormentes þus
                                
                                  Two ȝere and more laie wreched Aurelius
                                
                                  Or ony foote on erþe he myht gone
                                
                                  Ne comfort in þis time had he none
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                                  Saue of his broþer whiche þat was a clerke
                                
                                  He knewe of al þis woo and of al þis werke
                                
                                  For to none oþer creature certeine
                                
                                  Of þis matier ne dorst he no worde seine
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                                  Vnder his brest he bare his more secre
                                
                                  Than euer dide Pamphilius for Galathe
                                
                                  His brest was hole wiþ-owten for to sene
                                
                                  Bot in his herte was aie þe arwe kene
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                                  And wele ȝe wote þat a sore savoure
                                
                                  In surgere ful perilous is þe cure
                                
                                  Bot man myht touche þe arwe or come þerby
                                
                                  His broþer wepeþ and weileþ priuely
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                                  Til att þe last him fel in remembrance
                                
                                  þat whiles he was att Orliaunce in fraunce
                                
                                  As ȝonge clerkes þat buen licorous
                                
                                  To reden artes þat buen curious
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                                  Seken in euery halke and in euery herne
                                
                                  Particulere sciens for to lerne
                                
                                  He him remembreþ vpon a daie
                                
                                  Att Orliance in stode a boke he saye
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                                  Of Magik naturelle whiche is felawe
                                
                                  þat was þat time a bacheller of lawe
                                
                                  Al were he þere to lerne anoþer crafte
                                
                                  An priuely vpan his deske he lafte

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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 362
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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