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

                                
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                                  fful giltlees / by goddes swete pyne
                                
                                  ffor as an hors / I koude byte and whyne
                                
                                  I koude pleyne / and I was in the gilt
                                
                                  Or ellis / often tyme / I hadde been spilt
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                                  Who so that first to Mille comth / first grynt
                                
                                  I pleyned first so was oure werre stynt
                                
                                  They were ful glad / to excusen hem ful blyue
                                
                                  Of thyng of which they neuere agilte hir lyue
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                                  Of wenches / wolde I bern hem on honde
                                
                                  Whan that for syk they myghte vnnethe stonde
                                
                                  Yet tikled I his herte / for that he
                                
                                  Wende that I hadde had of hym / so greet chiertee
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                                  I swoor / that my walkyng out by nyghte [folio 63a] 
                                
                                  Was for to espye / wenches that he dighte
                                
                                  Vnder that colour / hadde I many a myrthe
                                
                                  ffor al swich wit is yeuen vs in oure birthe
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                                  Deceite / wepyng spynnyng god hath yeue
                                
                                  To wommen kyndely / whil they may lyue
                                
                                  And thus / of o thyng I auante me
                                
                                  At ende / I hadde the bet in ech degree
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                                  By sleighte / or force / or by som maner thyng
                                
                                  As by continuel murmur / or grucchyng
                                
                                  Namely abedde / hadden they meschaunce
                                
                                  Ther wolde I chide / and do hem no plesaunce
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                                  I wolde no lenger / in the bed abyde
                                
                                  If that I felte his arm / ouer my syde
                                
                                  Til he hadde maad / his raunceon vn-to me
                                
                                  Thanne wolde I suffre hym / do his nycetee
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                                  And ther-fore / euery man / this tale I telle
                                
                                  Wynne who so may / for al is for to selle
                                
                                  With empty hond / men may none haukes lure
                                
                                  ffor wynnyng wolde I al his lust endure
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                                  And make me / a feyned appetit
                                
                                  And yet in bacon / hadde I neuere delit
                                
                                  That made me / that euere I wolde hem chyde
                                
                                  For thogh the Pope / hadde seten hem bisyde

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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 140
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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