The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And ches hir of his oughne auctorite
                                
                                  For loue is blynd al day and may not se/.
                                
                                  And whan he was in to bedde brought
                                
                                  He purtrayed in his hert and in his þought
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                                  Hir freische beaute and hir age tendre
                                
                                  Hir myddel smal hir armes long and sclendre
                                
                                  Hir wise gouernaunce hir gentilesse /
                                
                                  Hir wommanly beryng and hir sadnesse
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                                  And whan þat he on hir was condescendid
                                
                                  him þought his chois mighte nought ben amendid
                                
                                  For whan þat he himself concludid hadde
                                
                                  Him þough ech oþer mannes wyf so badde
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                                  That impossible it were to repplie
                                
                                  Agayn his choys þis was his fantasie
                                
                                  his frendes sent he to at his instaunce
                                
                                  And prayed hem to doon him þat plesaunce
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                                  That hastily þay wolde to him come
                                
                                  he wold abrigge her labour alle and some
                                
                                  Nedith no more for him to gon ne ryde
                                
                                  he was appoynted þer he wold abyde /
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                                  Placebo cam and eek his frendes soone /
                                
                                  And althirfirst. he bad hem alle a boone [folio 138a] 
                                
                                  That noon of hem noon argumentis make /
                                
                                  Agayn þe purpos. which þat he had take
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                                  which purpos was plesaunt to god sayd he /
                                
                                  And verray ground of his prosperite
                                
                                  He sayd þer was a mayden in þe toun
                                
                                  which þat of beaute hadde gret renoun
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                                  Al were it so sche were of smal degre /
                                
                                  Suffisith him hir trouth and hir beaute /
                                
                                  which mayde he sayd he wold haue to his wyf
                                
                                  To lede in ease and holinesse his lyf
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                                  And þanked god þat he might haue hir al
                                
                                  That no wight his blisse parten schal
                                
                                  And preyed hem to laboure in þis neede
                                
                                  And schapen þat he faile not to speede

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 312
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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