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

                                
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                                  With my gossyb / dwellyng in oure town
                                
                                  God haue hir soule / hir name was Alisoun
                                
                                  She knew myn herte / and eek my pryuetee
                                
                                  Bet than oure parysshe preest as mote I thee
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                                  To hire biwreyed I / my conseil al
                                
                                  ffor hadde myn housbonde / pissed on a wal
                                
                                  Or doon a thyng / that sholde haue cost his lyf
                                
                                  To hire / and to another worthy wyf
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                                  And to my Nece / which þat I loued wel
                                
                                  I wolde han toold / his conseil euery del
                                
                                  And so I dide / ful often / god it woot
                                
                                  That made his face / often reed and hoot
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                                  ffor verray shame / and blamed hym self for he
                                
                                  Hadde toold to me / so greet a pryuetee
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that ones in a lente
                                
                                  So often tymes / I to my gossyb wente
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                                  ffor euere yet I louede to be gay
                                
                                  And for to walke / in March / Auerylle / and May
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous / to here sondry tales
                                
                                  That Iankyn Clerk/ and my gossyb dame Alys
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                                  And I my self / in to the feeldes wente
                                
                                  Myn housbonde was at london / al that lente
                                
                                  I hadde / the bettre leyser for to pleye
                                
                                  And for to se / and eek for to be seye
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                                  Of lusty folk what wiste I wher my grace
                                
                                  Was shapen for to be / or in what place
                                
                                  Ther-fore / I made my visitacions
                                
                                  To Vigilies / and to processions
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                                  To prechyng eek / and to thise pilgrymages [folio 65a] 
                                
                                  To pleyes of myracles / and to mariages
                                
                                  And wered vp on / my gaye scarlet gytes
                                
                                  Thise wormes / ne thise moththes / ne thise Mytes
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                                  Vp-on my peril / frete hem neuer a del
                                
                                  And wostow / why / for they were vsed wel
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I tellen forth / what happed me
                                
                                  I seye / that in the feeldes walked we

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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 144
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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