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

                                
                                  Til it fel oones in a morwe of may
                                
                                  That Emelie þat fairer was to seene
                                
                                  Than is þe lilie on hire stalkes grene
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                                  And fresscher þan the may with floures newe
                                
                                  For with þe rose colour strof hire hewe
                                
                                  I not which was þe fyner of hem two
                                
                                  Er it was day as sche was wont to do
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                                  Sche was arisen and al redy dight
                                
                                  For may wole haue no sloggardye anyght
                                
                                  The sesoun prikeþ euery gentil herte
                                
                                  And makeþ him · out of his sleepe sterte
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                                  And seith arys and do þin obseruance
                                
                                  This maked Emelye han remembrance
                                
                                  To do honour to May and for to ryse
                                
                                  I-cloþed was sche fressh for to deuyse
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                                  hire ȝolwe heer was browdid in a tresse
                                
                                  Byhynde hire bak aȝerde long I gesse
                                
                                  And in the gardyn at þe sonne vpriste
                                
                                  Sche walkeþ vp and doun wher as hire liste
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                                  Sche gadereþ floures party whyte and reede
                                
                                  To make a certeyn gerland for hire heede
                                
                                  And as an aungel heuenly sche song
                                
                                  The grete tour þat was so þikke and strong
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                                  which of þe castel was the cheef dongeoun
                                
                                  Ther as þis knightes weren in prisoun
                                
                                  Of which I tolde ȝow and telle schal
                                
                                  was euene Ioynyng to þe gardeyn wal
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                                  Ther as þis Emely hadde hire pleyynge
                                
                                  Bright was þe sonne and cleer þat morwenynge
                                
                                  And Palamon þis woful prisoner [folio 15a] 
                                
                                  As was his wone by leue of his gayler
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                                  was risen and romed in a Chambre on heigh
                                
                                  In which he al þe noble cite seigh
                                
                                  And eek þe gardeyn ful of braunches grene
                                
                                  Ther as þe fresshe Emelye þe scheene
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                                  was in hire walk/ and romed vp and doun

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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 31
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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