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

                                
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                                  What rowne ye with oure mayde / benedicite
                                
                                  Sire olde lechour / lat thy Iapes be
                                
                                  And if I haue / a gossib / or A freend
                                
                                  With-outen gilt ye chiden as a feend
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                                  If that I walke / or pleye vn-to his hous
                                
                                  Thow comest hoom / as dronken as a mous
                                
                                  And prechest on thy bench / with yuel preef
                                
                                  Thow seyst to me / it is a greet mescheef
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                                  To wedde a poure womman / for costage
                                
                                  And if that she be ryche / of heigh parage
                                
                                  Thanne seistow / that it is a tormentrye
                                
                                  To suffre / hir pryde / and hir malencolye
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                                  And if þat she be fair / thow verray knaue
                                
                                  Thow seist that euery holour wol hire haue
                                
                                  She may no while / in chastitee abyde
                                
                                  That is assayled / vp-on ech a syde
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                                  ¶ Thow seyst som folk / desiren vs for richesse
                                
                                  Somme for oure shape / and somme for oure fairnesse
                                
                                  And somme / for she kan outher synge / or daunce
                                
                                  And somme / for gentillesse / and dalyaunce
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                                  Somme for hir handes / and hir armes smale
                                
                                  Thus goth al to the deuel / by thy tale
                                
                                  Thow seyst/ men may nat kepe a Castel wal
                                
                                  It may so longe / assaylled been ouer al
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                                  And if that she be foul / thow seyst þat she
                                
                                  Coueiteth euery man / that she may se
                                
                                  ffor as a Spaynel / she wol on hym lepe
                                
                                  Til that she fynde / som man hir to chepe
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                                  Ne noon so grey goos / goth ther in the lake
                                
                                  As seistow / wol be with-oute make
                                
                                  And seyst it is an hard thyng/ for to wolde
                                
                                  A thyng/ that no man wol his thankes holde
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                                  Thus seistow lorel / whan thow goost to bedde
                                
                                  And that no wys man / nedeth for to wedde
                                
                                  Ne no man / that entendeth vn-to heuene
                                
                                  With wilde thonder dynt and firy leuene

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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 136
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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