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

                                
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                                  ffor who so wolde senge / a Cattes skyn
                                
                                  Thanne wolde the Cat wel dwellen in his In
                                
                                  And if the Cattes skyn / be slyk and gay
                                
                                  She wol nat dwelle in house / half a day
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                                  But forth she wole / er any day be dawed
                                
                                  To shewe hir skyn / and goon a Caterwawed
                                
                                  This is to seye / if I be gay sire shrewe
                                
                                  I wol renne out my borel for to shewe
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                                  Sire olde fool / what helpeth thee tespyen [folio 62b] 
                                
                                  Thogh thow preye Argus / with his hundred eyen
                                
                                  To be my wardecorps / as he kan best
                                
                                  In feith / he shal nat kepe me / but me lest
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                                  Yet koude I make his berd / as mote I thee
                                
                                  ¶ Thow seydest eek þat ther ben thynges three
                                
                                  The whiche thynges / troublen al this erthe
                                
                                  And that no wight may endure the ferthe
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                                  O leeue sire shrewe / Ihesu shorte thy lyf
                                
                                  Yet prechestow / and seist an hateful wyf
                                
                                  Yrekened is / for oon of thise myschaunces
                                
                                  Been ther / noone othere resemblaunces
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                                  That ye may likne / youre parables to
                                
                                  But if a sely wyf be oon of tho
                                
                                  ¶ Thow liknest eek / wommanes loue to helle
                                
                                  To bareyne lond / ther water may nat dwelle
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                                  Thow liknest it also / to wilde fyr
                                
                                  The moore it brenneth / the moore it hath desyr
                                
                                  To consumen euery thyng þat brent wol be
                                
                                  Thow seist right as wormes shende a tree
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                                  Right so a wyf / destroyeth hir housbonde
                                
                                  This knowen they / that been to wyues bonde
                                
                                  ¶ Lordynges / right thus / as ye han vnderstonde
                                
                                  Bar I stifly / myne olde housbondes on honde
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                                  That thus they seyden / in hir dronkenesse
                                
                                  And al was fals / but that I took witnesse
                                
                                  On Iankyn / and on my Nece also
                                
                                  O lord / the pyne I dide hem / and the wo

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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 139
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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