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 ...

                                
                                  As hym god woot / ne neuere shal no moo [folio 126a] 
                                
                                  This last lengere / than a ȝer or twoo
                                
                                  That I supposed of him / nought but good
                                
                                  But fynally / thus at the laste it stod
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                                  That fortune wolde / that he must twynne
                                
                                  Out of that place / which that I was Inne
                                
                                  where me was woo / that is no question
                                
                                  I can nat make of it / discripcion
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                                  ffor oo thyng dar I tellen / boldely
                                
                                  I knowe what is the peyne of deth / ther-by
                                
                                  Swich harm I felt / for he ne myght byleue
                                
                                  So on a day of me / he tok his leue
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                                  So sorweful eke / that I wende verreily
                                
                                  That he had felt / as muchel harm as I
                                
                                  whan that I herd him speke / & saugh his hewe
                                
                                  But natheles I thought / he was so trewe
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                                  And eke that he repeire / shulde a-geyn
                                
                                  with-Inne a litel tyme / soth to seyn
                                
                                  And reson wolde eke / that he must go
                                
                                  ffor his honour / as often happeth so
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                                  That I made vertu / of necessite
                                
                                  And toke it wel / syn that it must be
                                
                                  As I best myght / I hidde fro him my sorwe
                                
                                  And tok him by the hand / Seynt Iohn to borwe
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                                  And seide him thus / I am ȝowres al
                                
                                  Beth swich as I to ȝow / haue ben & shal
                                
                                  what he answered / it nedeth nat reherce
                                
                                  who can seyn bet / than he / and don werse
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                                  whan he hath al wel seid / than hath he don
                                
                                  Therfore byhoued hire / a ful long spon
                                
                                  That shal ete with the fend / thus herd I seye
                                
                                  So at the laste / he must forth his weye
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                                  And forth he fleeth / til he come þere him luste
                                
                                  ¶ Whan it come him to purpos / for to reste [¶ reditu suo sin|gula gaudent;] 
                                
                                  I trowe that he hadde / thilke text in mynde
                                
                                  That al thyng / repairyng to his kynde

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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 328
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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