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'IN faith Squier thou hast thee well acquit	A
And gentilly I praise well thy wit '	B
Quoth the Franklin 'considering thy youthe	C
So feelingly thou speak'st Sir I aloue thee allow approve	D
As to my doom there is none that is here so far as my judgment	E
Of eloquence that shall be thy peer goes	F
If that thou live God give thee goode chance	G
And in virtue send thee continuance	H
For of thy speaking I have great dainty value esteem	I
I have a son and by the Trinity	J
It were me lever than twenty pound worth land I would rather	K
Though it right now were fallen in my hand	L
He were a man of such discretion	M
As that ye be fy on possession	M
But if a man be virtuous withal unless	N
I have my sone snibbed and yet shall rebuked 'snubbed '	B
For he to virtue listeth not t'intend does not wish to	O
But for to play at dice and to dispend apply himself	P
And lose all that he hath is his usage	Q
And he had lever talke with a page	R
Than to commune with any gentle wight	S
There he might learen gentilless aright '	B
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Straw for your gentillesse ' quoth our Host	T
'What Frankelin pardie Sir well thou wost knowest	T
That each of you must tellen at the least	T
A tale or two or breake his behest ' promise	U
'That know I well Sir ' quoth the Frankelin	M
'I pray you have me not in disdain	M
Though I to this man speak a word or two '	-
'Tell on thy tale withoute wordes mo' '	-
'Gladly Sir Host ' quoth he 'I will obey	V
Unto your will now hearken what I say	V
I will you not contrary in no wise disobey	V
As far as that my wittes may suffice	W
I pray to God that it may please you	O
Then wot I well that it is good enow	M
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'These olde gentle Bretons in their days	X
Of divers aventures made lays lt gt	T
Rhymeden in their firste Breton tongue	Y
Which layes with their instruments they sung	Y
Or elles reade them for their pleasance	X
And one of them have I in remembrance	X
Which I shall say with good will as I can	M
But Sirs because I am a borel man rude unlearned	T
At my beginning first I you beseech	Z
Have me excused of my rude speech	Z
I learned never rhetoric certain	M
Thing that I speak it must be bare and plain	M
I slept never on the mount of Parnasso	X
Nor learned Marcus Tullius Cicero	A2
Coloures know I none withoute dread doubt	T
But such colours as growen in the mead	T
Or elles such as men dye with or paint	T
Colours of rhetoric be to me quaint strange	B2
My spirit feeleth not of such mattere	A2
But if you list my tale shall ye hear '	-
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In Armoric' that called is Bretagne	M
There was a knight that lov'd and did his pain devoted himself	P
To serve a lady in his beste wise strove	C2
And many a labour many a great emprise enterprise	X
He for his lady wrought ere she were won	M
For she was one the fairest under sun	M
And eke thereto come of so high kindred	T
That well unnethes durst this knight for dread see note lt gt	T
Tell her his woe his pain and his distress	X
But at the last she for his worthiness	X
And namely for his meek obeisance especially	J
Hath such a pity caught of his penance suffering distress	X
That privily she fell of his accord	T
To take him for her husband and her lord	T
Of such lordship as men have o'er their wives	X
And for to lead the more in bliss their lives	X
Of his free will he swore her as a knight	T
That never in all his life he day nor night	T
Should take upon himself no mastery	J
Against her will nor kithe her jealousy show	A2
But her obey and follow her will in all	D2
As any lover to his lady shall	E2
Save that the name of sovereignety	T
That would he have for shame of his degree	J
She thanked him and with full great humbless	X
She saide 'Sir since of your gentleness	X
Ye proffer me to have so large a reign	M
Ne woulde God never betwixt us twain	M
As in my guilt were either war or strife see note lt gt	T
Sir I will be your humble true wife	F2
Have here my troth till that my hearte brest ' burst	T
Thus be they both in quiet and in rest	T
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For one thing Sires safely dare I say	X
That friends ever each other must obey	X
If they will longe hold in company	J
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery	J
When mast'ry comes the god of love anon	J
Beateth lt gt his wings and farewell he is gone	J
Love is a thing as any spirit free	J
Women of kind desire liberty by nature	A2
And not to be constrained as a thrall slave	G2
And so do men if soothly I say shall	E2
Look who that is most patient in love	H2
He is at his advantage all above enjoys the highest	T
Patience is a high virtue certain advantages of all	D2
For it vanquisheth as these clerkes sayn	J
Thinges that rigour never should attain	J
For every word men may not chide or plain	J
Learne to suffer or so may I go prosper	A2
Ye shall it learn whether ye will or no	J
For in this world certain no wight there is	X
That he not doth or saith sometimes amiss	X
Ire or sickness or constellation the influence of	H2
Wine woe or changing of complexion the planets	X
Causeth full oft to do amiss or speaken	J
On every wrong a man may not be wreaken revenged	T
After the time must be temperance according to	T
To every wight that can of governance is capable of	H2
And therefore hath this worthy wise knight	T
To live in ease sufferance her behight promised	T
And she to him full wisly gan to swear surely	J
That never should there be default in her	A2
Here may men see a humble wife accord	T
Thus hath she ta'en her servant and her lord	T
Servant in love and lord in marriage	I2
Then was he both in lordship and servage	I2
Servage nay but in lordship all above	H2
Since he had both his lady and his love	H2
His lady certes and his wife also	J
The which that law of love accordeth to	T
And when he was in this prosperrity	T
Home with his wife he went to his country	J
Not far from Penmark lt gt where his dwelling was	X
And there he liv'd in bliss and in solace delight	T
Who coulde tell but he had wedded be unless	X
The joy the ease and the prosperity	J
That is betwixt a husband and his wife	F2
A year and more lasted this blissful life	F2
Till that this knight of whom I spake thus	X
That of Cairrud lt gt was call'd Arviragus	X
Shope him to go and dwell a year or twain prepared arranged	T
In Engleland that call'd was eke Britain	J
To seek in armes worship and honour	J
For all his lust he set in such labour pleasure	J
And dwelled there two years the book saith thus	X
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Now will I stint of this Arviragus cease speaking	J2
And speak I will of Dorigen his wife	F2
That lov'd her husband as her hearte's life	F2
For his absence weepeth she and siketh sigheth	C
As do these noble wives when them liketh	C
She mourneth waketh waileth fasteth plaineth	C
Desire of his presence her so distraineth	C
That all this wide world she set at nought	T
Her friendes which that knew her heavy thought	T
Comforte her in all that ever they may	X
They preache her they tell her night and day	X
That causeless she slays herself alas	X
And every comfort possible in this case	X
They do to her with all their business assiduity	X
And all to make her leave her heaviness	X
By process as ye knowen every one	J
Men may so longe graven in a stone	J
Till some figure therein imprinted be	J
So long have they comf	F2

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