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

                                
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                                  How koude I daunce / to an harpe smale
                                
                                  And synge ywys / as any nyghtyngale
                                
                                  Whan I hadde dronke / a draghte of swete wyn
                                
                                  Metellyus / the foule cherl the swyn
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                                  That with a staf / birafte his wyf hir lyf
                                
                                  ffor she drank wyn /. though I hadde been his wyf
                                
                                  Ne sholde nat han daunted me fro drynke
                                
                                  And after wyn / on Venus moste I thynke
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                                  ffor also siker / as coold engendreth hayl
                                
                                  A likerous mouth / moste han a likerous tayl
                                
                                  In womman vynolent / is no defence
                                
                                  This knowen lechours / by experience
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                                  But lord crist whan þat it remembreth me
                                
                                  Vp-on my youthe / and on my iolytee
                                
                                  It tikeleth me / aboute myn herte roote
                                
                                  Vn-to this day / it dooth myn herte boote
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                                  That I haue had my world / as in my tyme
                                
                                  But age allas / that al wole enuenyme
                                
                                  Hath me biraft my beautee / and my pith
                                
                                  Lat go farwel / the deuel go ther-with
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                                  The flour is goon / ther is namoore to telle [folio 64a] 
                                
                                  The bren as I best kan / now moste I selle
                                
                                  But yet to be right murye / wol I fonde
                                
                                  Now wol I tellen / of my ferthe housbonde
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                                  ¶ I seye I hadde in herte gret despit
                                
                                  That he / of any oother had delit
                                
                                  But he was quyt by god and by Seint Ioce
                                
                                  I made hym / of the same wode a troce
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                                  Nat of my body / in no foul manere
                                
                                  But certeynly / I made folk swich chiere
                                
                                  That in his owene grece / I made hym frye
                                
                                  ffor angre / and for verray Ialousye
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                                  By god / in erthe / I was his purgatorie
                                
                                  ffor which I hope / his soule be in glorie
                                
                                  ffor god it woot he sat ful ofte and soong
                                
                                  Whan þat his shoo / ful bitterly hym wroong

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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 142
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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