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

                                
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                                  And I was fourty / if I shal seye sooth
                                
                                  But yit I hadde alwey / a coltes tooth
                                
                                  Gat tothed I was / & that bicam me weel
                                
                                  I hadde the preente / of Seynt Venus seel
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                                  As help me god I was a lusty oon
                                
                                  And fayr/ and ryche / and yong and wel bigoon
                                
                                  And trewely / as myne housbondes tolde me [folio 65b] 
                                
                                  I hadde the beste quonyam / myghte be
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                                  [ffor certes I am / al Vencrien
                                
                                  In feelyng / and myn hert is Marcien
                                
                                  Venus me ȝaf my lust / my likerousnesse
                                
                                  And Mars ȝaf me / my sturdy hardynesse [[  [Cambr. Univ. MS Dd, 4. 24 folio 74a] , line 9]]  [[Not in Addit. 5140, lf 96, bk; or Harl. 7335, lf 69; or Sloane 1685, lf 111; MS Reg. 18 C ii, lf 112, bk; Sloane 1686, lf 128; or Cambr. Mm. 2. 5.]] ]
                                
                                  Myn ascendent was Taur / and Mars ther-Inne
                                
                                  Allas / allas / that euere loue was synne
                                
                                  I folwed ay / myn Inclinacion
                                
                                  By vertu / of my constellacion
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                                  That made me / I koude noght withdrawe
                                
                                  My chambre of Venus / from a good felawe
                                
                                  [Ȝet haue I Mars merk / vp-on my face
                                
                                  And also / in a nother pryue place
                                
                                  ffor god so wysely / be my sauacioun
                                
                                  I louede neuere / by no discrecioun
                                
                                  But euere folwed / myn appetit
                                
                                  Al were he short / long blak or whiȝt
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                                  I toke no kepe / so that he liked me
                                
                                  How poore he was / ne eke of what degree [ [Cambr. Univ. MS Dd. 4.24 folio 74a] , line 19]]  [[Not in Addit. 5140, lf 96, bk; or Harl. 7335, lf 69; or Sloane 1685, lf 111; MS Reg. 18 C ii, lf 112, bk; Sloane 1686, lf 128; or Cambr. Mm. 2. 5.]]  [[MS Dd. 4. 24 ex|tract stops]] ]
                                
                                  ¶ What sholde I seye / but at the Monthes ende
                                
                                  This ioly clerk / Iankyn þat was so hende
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                                  Hath wedded me / with greet solempnytee
                                
                                  And to hym yaf I / al the lond and fee
                                
                                  That euere was me yeuen / ther bifore
                                
                                  But afterward / repented me ful sore
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                                  He nolde suffre / no thyng of my list
                                
                                  By god / he smoot me ones / on the lyst
                                
                                  ffor that I rente / out of his book a leef
                                
                                  That of the strook/ myn ere weex al deef

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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 146
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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