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

                                
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                                  Wher þat hir housbonde / hidde hym in a place
                                
                                  ffor which / he hadde at Thebes sory grace
                                
                                  ¶ Of lyma tolde he me / and of lucie
                                
                                  They bothe / made hir housbondes for to dye
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                                  That oon for loue / that oother was for hate
                                
                                  Lyma hir housbonde / on an euen late
                                
                                  Empoysoned hath / for þat she was his fo
                                
                                  Lucya likerous / loued hir housbonde so
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                                  That for he sholde alwey / vp-on hir thynke
                                
                                  She yaf hym / swich a manere loue drynke
                                
                                  That he was deed / er it were by the morwe
                                
                                  And thus algates / housbondes han sorwe
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                                  ¶ Thanne tolde he me / how þat oon latumyus
                                
                                  Compleygned / vn-to his felawe Arrius
                                
                                  That in his gardyn / growed swich a tree
                                
                                  On which he seyde / how þat hise wyues thre
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                                  Honged hem self / for hertes despitus
                                
                                  ¶ O leeue brother / quod this Arrius
                                
                                  yif me a plante / of thilke blessed tree
                                
                                  And in my gardyn / planted shal it be
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                                  ¶ Of latter date of wyues / hath he red
                                
                                  That somme han slayn / hir housbondes in hir bed
                                
                                  And lete hir lechour / dighte hire al the nyght
                                
                                  Whan þat the corps / lay in the floor vp ryght
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                                  ¶ And somme / han dryuen nayles in hir brayn
                                
                                  Whil þat they sleepe / and thus they han hem slayn
                                
                                  ¶ Somme han hem yeuen poysoun / in hir drynke
                                
                                  He spak moore harm / than herte may bithynke
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                                  And ther with al / he knew of mo prouerbes
                                
                                  Than in this world / ther growen gras or herbes
                                
                                  Bet is quod he / thyn habitacioun
                                
                                  Be with a leon / or a foul dragoun
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                                  Than with a womman / vsyng for to chide
                                
                                  Bet is quod he / hye in the roof abyde
                                
                                  Than with an angry wyf / down in the hous
                                
                                  They been so wikked / and contrarious

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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 150
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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