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

                                
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                                  Stibourne I was / as is a leonesse
                                
                                  And of my tonge / a verray Iangleresse
                                
                                  And walke I wolde / as I hadde doon biforn
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous / al-thogh he hadde it sworn
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                                  ffor which / he often tymes / wolde preche
                                
                                  And me / of olde Romayn gestes teche
                                
                                  How he Symplicius Gallus / lafte his wif
                                
                                  And hire forsook for terme of al his lif
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                                  Noght but for open heueded he hir say
                                
                                  Lokynge out at his dore / vp-on a day
                                
                                  ¶ Another Romayn / tolde he me by name
                                
                                  That for his wyf / was at a Someres game
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                                  With-outen his wityng / he forsook hire eke
                                
                                  And thanne wolde he / vp-on his Bible seke
                                
                                  That ilke prouerbe / of Ecclesiaste
                                
                                  Where he comandeth / and forbedeth faste
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                                  Man shal nat suffre his wyf / go roule aboute
                                
                                  Thanne wold he seye right thus / with-outen doute
                                
                                  Who so þat buyldeth his hous / al of salwes [nota] 
                                
                                  And priketh his blynde hors / ouer the falwes [nota] 
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                                  And suffreth his wyf / to go seken halwes [nota] 
                                
                                  Is worthy / to ben hanged on the galwes [nota] 
                                
                                  But al for noght I sette noght an hawe [folio 66a] 
                                
                                  Of his prouerbe / nof his olde sawe
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                                  Ny wolde nat of hym corrected be
                                
                                  I hate hym / þat my vices telleth me
                                
                                  And so doon mo / god woot of vs than I
                                
                                  This made hym / with me wood al outrely
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                                  I nolde noght forbere hym / in no cas
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I sey yow sooth / by Seint Thomas
                                
                                  Why þat I rente / out of his book a leef
                                
                                  ffor which / he smoot me so / þat I was deef
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                                  He hadde a book/ þat gladly nyght and day
                                
                                  ffor his disport he wolde rede alway
                                
                                  He clepyd it Valerie and Theofraste
                                
                                  At which book/ he logh alwey ful faste

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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 147
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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