The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Assembled been / his answere for to here
                                
                                  And afterward / this knyght was bode appere
                                
                                  To euery wyght / comaunded was silence
                                
                                  And that the knyght / shulde telle in audience
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                                  What thyng / that worldly wommen / louen best
                                
                                  This knyght ne stod nat stille / as doth a best
                                
                                  But to this question / a-noon answerede
                                
                                  with manly voys / that al the courte it herde
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                                  My liege lady / generally quod he
                                
                                  wommen desiren / to han soueraignete
                                
                                  As wel ouer hire husbonde / as hire loue
                                
                                  And for to ben / in maistrie him a-boue
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                                  This is ȝoure most desire / though ȝe me kille
                                
                                  Doth as ȝow list / I am here at ȝoure wylle
                                
                                  ¶ In al the courte / ne was there wyf ne mayde
                                
                                  Ne wydewe / that contraried that he sayde
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                                  But seiden he was worthy / to haue his lyf
                                
                                  And with that word / vp stirt this olde wyf
                                
                                  which that the knyght saw / sittyng on the grene
                                
                                  Mercy quod she / my souereyne lady Quene
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                                  Er that ȝoure courte departe / do me right
                                
                                  I taught this answere / vn-to the knyght
                                
                                  ffor which he plight me / his trouthe there
                                
                                  The first thyng / that I wolde him requere
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                                  he wolde it do / if it lay in his myght
                                
                                  Byfore this courte / than preye I the sire knyght
                                
                                  Quod she / that þou me take vn-to thy wyf
                                
                                  ffor wel thow wost / that I haue kept thy lif
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                                  If I sey fals / sey nay vp-on thy fey
                                
                                  ¶ This knyght answered / allas and weilawey
                                
                                  I wot right wel / þat swich was myn byheste
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue / as chese a newe requeste [folio 79a] 
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                                  Take al my good / and late my body goo
                                
                                  Nay thanne quod she / I shrewe vs bothe twoo
                                
                                  ffor though that I be foul / old and pore
                                
                                  I nold for al the metal / ne for ore

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 197
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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