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

                                
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                                  Thanne sit he doun / and writ in his dotage
                                
                                  That wommen / kan nat kepe hir mariage
                                
                                  ¶ But now to purpos / why I tolde thee
                                
                                  That I was beten / for a book pardee
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                                  Vp-on a nyght Iankyn þat was oure sire
                                
                                  Redde on his book/ as he sat by the fire
                                
                                  Of Eua first/ þat for hir wikkednesse
                                
                                  Was al mankynde / broght to wrecchednesse
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                                  [ffor which that ihesu crist/him self was slayn
                                
                                  That bought vs / with his hert blod a-gayn [[Not in Mm. 2. 5; not in Harl. 7335, lf 70, bk; Harl. 1758, lf 96; Ad. 5140, lf 98; Sloane 1685, lf 112, bk; Sloane 1686, lf 129, bk.]] 
                                
                                  Loo heere expres of wommen / may ȝe fynde
                                
                                  That womman was the losse/of al mankynde [ [Camb. Univ. MS Dd. 4. 24 folio 75a] , l. 26]] ]
                                
                                  ¶ Tho redde he me / how Sampson loste his herys
                                
                                  Slepynge / his lemman kitte it with hir sherys
                                
                                  Thurgh which treson / loste he bothe hise eyen
                                
                                  ¶ Tho redde he me / if that I shal nat lyen
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                                  Of hercules / and of his Dianyre
                                
                                  That caused hym / to sette hym self a fyre
                                
                                  ¶ No thyng forgat he / the sorwe and wo
                                
                                  That Socrates / hadde with his wyues two
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                                  How Xantippa / caste pisse vp-on his heed
                                
                                  This sely man sat stille / as he were deed
                                
                                  He wipte his heed / namoore dorste he seyn
                                
                                  But er that thonder stynte / comth a reyn
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                                  ¶ Of Phasifpha / that was the queene of Crete
                                
                                  ffor shrewednesse / hym thoughte the tale swete
                                
                                  ffy spek namoore / it is a grisly thyng
                                
                                  Of hire horrible lust and hir likyng
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                                  ¶ Of Clitermystra / for hir lecherye
                                
                                  That falsly / made hir housbonde for to dye
                                
                                  He redde it with ful good deuocioun
                                
                                  ¶ He tolde me eek for what occasioun
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                                  Amphiorax / at Thebes loste his lyf
                                
                                  Myn housbonde / hadde a legende of his wyf
                                
                                  ¶ Exiphilem / that for an Ouche of gold [folio 67a] 
                                
                                  Hath priuely / vn-to the grekys told

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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 149
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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