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

                                
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                                  That vnder erthe is graue / or lith aboue
                                
                                  But if thy wyf I were / and eek thy loue
                                
                                  ¶ My loue quod he / nay my dampnacion
                                
                                  Allas / that any of my nacion
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                                  Sholde euere / so foule disparaged be
                                
                                  But al for noght thende is this / that he
                                
                                  Constreyned was / he nedes moste hir wedde
                                
                                  And taketh his olde wyf / and goth to bedde
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                                  ¶ Now wolden som men / seye par auenture
                                
                                  That for my necligence / I do no cure
                                
                                  To tellen yow / the ioye / and al tharray
                                
                                  That at the feste / was that ilke day
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                                  To which thyng shortly / answere I shal
                                
                                  I seye / ther nas no ioye / ne feste at al
                                
                                  Ther nas but heuynesse / and muche sorwe
                                
                                  ffor priuely / he wedded hire on morwe
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                                  And al day after / hidde hym as on Owle
                                
                                  So wo was hym / his wyf looked so foule
                                
                                  ¶ Greet was the wo / the knyght hadde in his thoght
                                
                                  Whan he was with his wyf / a bedde ybroght
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                                  He walweth / and he turneth to and fro
                                
                                  His olde wyf/ lay smylyng euere mo
                                
                                  And seyde / o deere housbonde benedicite
                                
                                  ffareth euery knyght thus with his wyf/ as ye
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                                  Is this the lawe / of kyng Arthures hous
                                
                                  Is euery knyght of his / thus daungerous
                                
                                  I am youre owene loue / and youre wyf
                                
                                  I am she / which that saued hath youre lyf
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                                  And certes / yet ne dide I yow neuere vnright [folio 71b] 
                                
                                  Why fare ye thus with me / this firste nyght
                                
                                  Ye faren lyk a man / hadde lost his wit
                                
                                  What is my gilt/ for goddes loue tel it
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                                  And it shal ben amended / if I may
                                
                                  ¶ Amended quod this knyght allas nay / nay
                                
                                  It wol nat ben amended neuere mo
                                
                                  Thow art so loothly / and so old also

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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 160
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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