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

                                
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                                  As a man þat in his dreme is drecched sore
                                
                                  And whan þat Pertilote þus herde him Rore
                                
                                  Sche was agast & seide hert dere
                                
                                  What eyleþ ȝowe to grone in þis manere
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                                  Ȝe bue a verrey sleper fye for schame
                                
                                  And he anseward & seide þus madame
                                
                                  .I. pray ȝow þat ȝe take it to no greue
                                
                                  Be god me mette þat .I. was in suche mischeue
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                                  Riht nowe þat ȝit myne hert is sore afliht
                                
                                  Nowe quod he My sweven rede ariht
                                
                                  And kepe my body oute of foule prisone
                                
                                  Me mette þat .I. Romed vpe & doune
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                                  Wiþ-inne oure ȝerd where as .I. sawe a beste
                                
                                  Was like an hunde & wolde haue maad areste
                                
                                  Vpon My body & wolde haue hadde me dede
                                
                                  His colour was be-twixe white & Rede
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                                  And tipped was his taile & boþ his eres
                                
                                  Wiþ blak vnlyke þe remenant of his heres.
                                
                                  His snowte smal wiþ gloweinge eyen tweye [folio 219a] 
                                
                                  Ȝit of his loke almoste for fere .I. deye
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                                  þis caused me my groneinge douteles
                                
                                  Avoye quod sche Fy on ȝowe herteles
                                
                                  Alas quod sche for be þat god aboue
                                
                                  Now haue ȝe lost my hert & my loue
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                                  .I. kan nouht loue a coward be my feiþe
                                
                                  For certes what so any womman seyþe
                                
                                  Wil al desiren if it myht be
                                
                                  To haue husbandes harde wise & fre
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                                  And secre ne no nygard ne none fole
                                
                                  Ne him þat is agast of euery tole
                                
                                  Ne none avauntour be þat god aboue
                                
                                  How dorst ȝe seye for schame vnto ȝoure loue
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                                  þat any þinge myht maake ȝowe aferde
                                
                                  Haue ȝe none mannes herte & han berde
                                
                                  Alas & kan ȝe be agast of sweue[n]sse
                                
                                  [No thyng god woot/ but vanyte/ in sweuyn is/. [Harl. 1758 folio 194b] ]

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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 574
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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