The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  ffor I wol telle / a legende and a lyf
                                
                                  Bothe of a Carpenter / and of his wyf
                                
                                  How þat a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe
                                
                                  ¶ The Reue answerde / and seyde stynt thy clappe
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                                  Lat be / thy lewed dronken harlotrye
                                
                                  It is a synne / and eek a greet folye
                                
                                  To apeyren any man / or hym diffame
                                
                                  And eek to bryngen wyues / in swich fame
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                                  Thow mayst ynow / of othere thynges seyn
                                
                                  ¶ This dronken Millere / spak ful soone ageyn
                                
                                  And seyde / leeue brother Osewold
                                
                                  Who hath no wyf / he is no Cokewold
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                                  But I seye nat ther-fore / þat thow art oon
                                
                                  Ther been ful goode wyues many oon
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                  Why artow angry / wit my tale now
                                
                                  I haue a wyf pardee / as wel as thow
                                
                                  Yet nolde I / for the oxen in my plough
                                
                                  Take vp on me / moore than ynough
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                                  As demen of my self / þat I were oon
                                
                                  I wol bileeue wel / þat I am noon
                                
                                  An housbonde / shal noght been Inquisityf/
                                
                                  Of goddes pryuetee / nor of his wyf
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                                  So he may fynde / goddes foyson there
                                
                                  Of the remenant nedeth noght enquere
                                
                                  ¶ What sholde I moore seyn / but this Millere
                                
                                  He nolde his wordes / for no man forbere
                                
                                  But tolde his cherles tale / in his manere
                                
                                  Me athynketh / that I shal reherce it heere
                                
                                  And ther-fore / euery gentil wight I preye [folio 42a] 
                                
                                  Demeth noght for goddes loue / þat I seye
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                                  Of yuel entente / but for I moot reherse
                                
                                  Hir tales alle / be they bet or werse
                                
                                  Or ellis falsen / som of my matere
                                
                                  And ther-fore / who so list it noght yhere

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 90
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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