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

                                
                                     [6-text p 521] 
                                  
                                  O Teuta queene in þine wifly chastite
                                
                                  To al wyves maie a merrour be
                                
                                  . . .  [no gap in the MS: these lines] 
                                
                                  . . . .  [known only in Ellesmere MS.] 
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  Thus pleyned dorigen a day or tueye
                                
                                  Purposed euere þat sche wolde deye
                                
                                  ¶ Bot Naþeles on þe þredde nyht
                                
                                  Home cam Arueragus þe worþi knyht
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  And axed hire whi þat sche wepped so sore
                                
                                  And sche gan wepen euere þe longere more
                                
                                  Alas quod sche þat euer was .I. borne
                                
                                  Thus haue .I. seide quod sche þus haue .I. sworne
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  .I. tolde him al as ȝe haue herde before
                                
                                  .It nedeþ nouht to rehersen it no more
                                
                                  This husbonde wiþ glad chere in sondre wise
                                
                                  Anseward and seide as .I. schal ȝowe deuyse
                                  Line 1468 
                                
                                  Es þer ouht elles dorigen bot þis
                                
                                  Nay naye quod sche god helpe me so as wis
                                
                                  This is to meche· and it were goddes will
                                
                                  ȝe wife quod he lat slepe þat is still
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  It maie be wele ȝit perauentur to seie
                                
                                  Sche schol ȝoure trouþe holden be my faie
                                
                                  For god so wisly helpe me
                                
                                  .I. hadde well leuer ystiked for to be
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  For verrei loue whiche þat .I. to ȝoue haue
                                
                                  Bot if ȝe scholde ȝoure trouþe saue
                                
                                  Trouþe is þe hiest þinge þat man maie kepe
                                
                                  Bot wiþ þat worde he brast anone to wepe
                                  Line 1480 
                                
                                  And seide .I. ȝoue for-bede vpon peyne of deþe
                                
                                  þat neuer whiles ȝe last lif ne breþe.
                                
                                  Til no wihte telle howe þat þis matier [folio 150b] 
                                
                                  As .I. maye kepe .I. wil me wo endure
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                                  Ne make no countenance of heuynesse
                                
                                  þat folke of ȝowe maie deme harme or gesse
                                
                                  And forþe he cleped a swyer and a maide
                                
                                  Goþe forþe anone wiþ Dorogen he saide

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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 372
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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