The Franklin's Tale
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xxx xonge tyme / he lay forth in a traunce
xxs brother / which that knew of his penaunce
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Vp caughte hym / and to bedde he hath hym broght
Despeired / in this torment and this thoght
Lete I / this woful creature lye
Chese he for me / wher he wol lyue or dye
¶ Arueragus / with heele / and greet honour
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As he þt was / of Chiualrie the flour
Is comen hom / and othere worthy men
O blisful artow now / thow Dorigen
That hast thy lusty housbonde / in thyn armes
The fresshe knyght the worthy man of armes
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That loueth thee / as his owene hertes lyf
No thyng list hym / to been ymagynatyf
If any wight hadde spoke / whil he was oute
To hire of loue / he ne hadde of it no doute
He noght entendeth / to no swich matere
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But daunceth / Iusteth / maketh hir good cheere
And thus in ioye and blisse / I lete hem dwelle
And of the Syke Aurelius / wol I telle
¶ In langour / and in torment furyus
Two yeer and moore / lay wrecche Aurelius
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Er any foot he myghte on erthe gon
Ne confort in this tyme / hadde he non
Saue of his brother / which þt was a Clerk
He knew of al this wo / and al this werk
For / to noon oother creature certeyn
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Of this matere / he dorste no word seyn
Vnder his brist he baar it moore secree
Than euere dide PanfilĂ° / for Galathee
His brist was hool / with oute for to sene
But in his herte / ay was the arwe kene
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And wel ye knowe / þt of a Sursanure
In Surgerye / is perilous the cure
But men myghte touche the arwe / or come therby
His brother / weepe and wayled pryuely
Til at the laste / hym fil in remembrance
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That whils he was / at Orliens in France
As yonge clerkes / that been lykerous
To reden Artz / that been curious