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

                                
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                                  Til trewely / we hadde swich daliaunce
                                
                                  This clerk/ and I / that of my purueiaunce
                                
                                  I spak to hym / and seyde hym / how that he
                                
                                  If I were wydewe / sholde wedde me
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                                  ffor certeynly / I seye for no bobaunce
                                
                                  Yet was I neuere / with-outen purueiaunce
                                
                                  Of mariage / nof othere thynges eek /
                                
                                  I holde a mouses herte / noght worth a leek
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                                  That hath but oon hole / for to sterte to
                                
                                  And if that faille / thanne is al y-do
                                
                                  [I bar him on honde / he had enchaunted me
                                
                                  My Dame taught me / that sotilte
                                
                                  And eke I seide / I mette of him al nyght
                                
                                  He wold han slayn me / as I lay vp right
                                
                                  And al my bed / was ful of verray blod
                                
                                  But ȝet I hope / that ȝe shuln do me good
                                
                                  ffor blod bytokeneth gold / as me was taught
                                
                                  And al was fals / I dremed of it right nought
                                
                                  But as I folwed ay / my dames loore
                                
                                  As wel of that / as of othere thynges more. [[ [Camb. Univ. MS Dd. 4. 24 folio 73b] , line 21]]  [[Not in B. M. Addit. 5140, lf 96, bk; or Harl. 7335, lf 68, bk; or Harl. 1758, lf 95; or Sloane 1685, lf 110, bk; MS Reg. 18 C ii, lf 112;  Sloane 1686, lf 127, bk; (Preamble not in Harl. 1239; Pr. and Tale not in Shirley's Harl. 7333;) not in Camb. Univ. MS Mm 2. 5.]]  [[Camb. Dd. 4. 24 extract stops]] ]
                                
                                  But now sire / lat me se / what shal I seyn
                                
                                  A .ha. by god / I haue my tale ageyn
                                
                                  ¶ Whan that my fourthe housbonde / was a beere
                                
                                  I weep algate / and made sory cheere
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                                  As wyues mooten / for it is vsage
                                
                                  And with my couerchief / couered my visage
                                
                                  But for that I was / purueyed of a make
                                
                                  I wepte but smal / and that I vndertake
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                                  ¶ To chirche was myn housbonde / born a morwe
                                
                                  With neghebores / that for hym maden sorwe
                                
                                  And Iankyn oure clerk / was oon of tho
                                
                                  As help me god / whan that I saw hym go
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                                  After the beere / me thoughte he hadde a payre
                                
                                  Of legges and of feet so clene and fayre
                                
                                  That al myn herte / I gaf vn-to his hoold
                                
                                  He was I trowe / twenty wynter oold

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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 145
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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