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

                                
                                     [6-text p 523] 
                                  
                                  For whiche in fewe wordes seide he þus
                                
                                  Madame seiþe to ȝoure lorde Arneragus
                                
                                  þat seþin .I. see þis grete gentillesse
                                
                                  To ȝowe. and eke .I. see wele ȝoure destresse
                                  Line 1528 
                                
                                  þan ȝe to me þus scholde breke ȝoure trouþe
                                  Line 1530 
                                
                                  Sertes me þinkeþ it were riht grete rouþe [[spurious 1529]] 
                                
                                  .I. haue wele leuer euer to suffre woo [folio 151a] 
                                
                                  Then .I. departe þe loue be-tuex ȝow tuoo
                                  Line 1532 
                                
                                  .I. ȝowe reles ma dame in to ȝoure honde
                                
                                  Quyte euery surement and euery bonde
                                
                                  þat ȝe haue maade to me as here be-forne
                                
                                  Seþyns þilke time þat ȝe were borne
                                  Line 1536 
                                
                                  My trouþe .I. plihte .I. schal ȝowe neuer repreue
                                
                                  Of no by-heste and here .I. take my leue
                                
                                  As of þe trewest and þe best wif
                                
                                  þat euere ȝit knewe .I. in al my lyf
                                  Line 1540 
                                
                                  Bot euer y wyht bewar of hire behest
                                
                                  On dorigen remembreþ att þe lest
                                
                                  þus can a swyer done a gentil dede
                                
                                  As wele as kan a knyht wiþ outen drede
                                  Line 1544 
                                
                                  Sche þonke him vppon hire knees al bare
                                
                                  And home vnto hire housebonde is sche fare
                                
                                  And told him all ȝe haue herde me seide
                                
                                  And be ȝe seker he was so wele apaide
                                  Line 1548 
                                
                                  þat it were impossible to write
                                
                                  What schold .I. longer of þis cas endite
                                
                                  Arueragus and Dorigene his wif
                                
                                  In seuereigne blisse leden forþe here lyfe
                                  Line 1552 
                                
                                  Neuer eft ne was þere anger hem be-twene
                                
                                  He chiriseþ hire as þouhe sche where a quene
                                
                                  And sche was to him treue for euer more
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                                  Aurelius þat his cost haþe Al forlore
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                                  Curseþ þe time þat euer he was borne
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                                  For certes he seiþ .I. am for-lorne [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  Alas quod he alas þat I be-hiht
                                
                                  O pured gold .a. þousand pou[n]de of wyht

                                  Line 1560

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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 374
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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