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 ...

                                
                                  With dredful herte / and with humble chere
                                
                                  Salued hath / his souerayn lady dere
                                
                                  ¶ My rightful lady / quod this wooful man
                                
                                  Whom I moost drede and loue / as I best can
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                                  And lothest were / of al this world / displese
                                
                                  Nere it that I / for ȝow haue swich dissese
                                
                                  That I must deyen heere / at ȝoure foot a-noon
                                
                                  Nought wolde I telle / how me is woo-bygon
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                                  But certes / either must I dye or pleyne
                                
                                  Ȝe sleen me giltlees / for verray peyne
                                
                                  But of my deth / though that ȝe haue no routhe
                                
                                  A-vyseth ȝow / er that ȝe breke ȝoure trouthe
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                                  Repenteth ȝow / for thilke god a-boue
                                
                                  Or ȝe me sleen / by-cause that I ȝow loue
                                
                                  ffor Madame wel ȝe woot / what ȝe han hight
                                
                                  Nat that I chalenge / any thyng of right
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                                  Of ȝow / my souerayn lady / but ȝoure grace
                                
                                  But in a gardeyn ȝonder / at swich a place
                                
                                  Ȝe wot right wel / what ȝe behighten me
                                
                                  And in myn hond / ȝoure treuthe plight ȝe
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                                  To loue me best / god wot ȝe seide so
                                
                                  Al be / that I vnworthy am ther-to
                                
                                  Madame / I speke it for the honour of ȝow
                                
                                  More than to saue / myn hertes lyf right now
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                                  I haue do so / as ȝe comaunded me
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouchesaf / ȝe may go se
                                
                                  Doth as ȝow list / haue ȝowre bihest in mynde [folio 135b] 
                                
                                  ffor quykke or ded / right there ȝe shal me fynde
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                                  In ȝow lith al / to do me lyue or deye
                                
                                  But wel I woot / the Rokkes ben a-weye
                                
                                  he taketh his leue / and she astoned stode
                                
                                  In al hire face / nas a drope of bloode
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                                  She wend neuere han come / in swich a trappe
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod she / that euere this shulde happe
                                
                                  ffor wende I neuere / by possibilitee
                                
                                  That such a moastre / or merueille myght be

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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 350
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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