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"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was..."

"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was..."
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"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was..."

from: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer (P. 440) -  1958
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"When Adriane his wyf aslepe was, For that her suster fairer was than she, He taketh her in his hond, and forth goth he To shippe, and as a traitour stal his way Whyl that this Adriane aslepe lay, And to his contree-ward he saileth blyve, A twenty devil way the wind him dryve!" (p. 439)