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 ...

                                
                                  That is bytwixte / an husbonde / and his wyf
                                
                                  A ȝere and more / lasteth this blisful lif
                                
                                  Til that the knyght / of which I speke of thus
                                
                                  That of kairud / was cleped Arueregus
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                                  Shoope him to gon / and dwelled a ȝere or tweyne
                                
                                  In Engelond / that cleped was eke Bretaigne
                                
                                  To seke in armes / worshipe and honour
                                
                                  ffor al his lust / he sette in swich labour
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                                  And dwelled there / the ȝere / the book seith thus
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I stynten / of this Arueragus
                                
                                  And speken I wol / of Dorigen his wif
                                
                                  That loueth hire husbonde / as hire hertes lyf
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                                  ffor his absence / wepeth she and syketh
                                
                                  As doon theise noble wyues / whan hem liketh
                                
                                  She morneth / waketh / wayleth / fasteth / pleyneth
                                
                                  Desire of his presence / hire so destreyneth
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                                  That al this wyde world / she sette at nought
                                
                                  hire frendes / which that knewe / hire heuy thought
                                
                                  Conforten hire / in al that euere they may
                                
                                  They prechen hire / they tellen hire / nyght & day
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                                  That causelees / she sleth hire self / allas
                                
                                  And euery confort / possible in this cas
                                
                                  They don to hire / with al here besynesse
                                
                                  Al for to make hire leue / hire heuynesse
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                                  ¶ By processe / as ȝe knowen euerychon
                                
                                  Men moun so longe / grauen in a ston
                                
                                  Til som figure / ther-Inne empreynted be
                                
                                  So longe han they / conforted hire / til she
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                                  Receyued hath / by hope and by reson
                                
                                  The empryntynge / of hire consolacion
                                
                                  Thurgh which / hire gret sorwe / gan a-swage
                                
                                  She may nat alwey duren / in swich rage
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                                  ¶ And eke Arueragus / in al this care
                                
                                  hath sent hire lettres hom / of his welfare
                                
                                  And that he wol come hastily / a-geyn
                                
                                  Or elles had this sorwe / hire hert slayn

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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 336
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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