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

                                
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                                  Were in no book/ ye gentils of honour
                                
                                  Seyn / þat men an old wight sholde doon fauour
                                
                                  And clepe hym fader / for youre gentilesse
                                
                                  And Auctours / shal I fynden / as I gesse
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                                  ¶ Now ther ye seye / that I am foul and old [folio 73a] 
                                
                                  Thanne drede yow noght to been a Cokewold
                                
                                  ffor filthe and elde / al-so mote I thee
                                
                                  Been grete wardeyns / vp-on chastitee
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                                  But nathelees / syn I knowe youre delit/
                                
                                  I shal fulfille / youre worldly appetit
                                
                                  ¶ Chees now quod she / oon of thise thinges tweye
                                
                                  To han me foul and old / til that I deye
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                                  And be to yow / a trewe humble wyf
                                
                                  And neuere yow displese / in al my lyf
                                
                                  Or ellis / ye wol han me / yong and fair
                                
                                  And take youre auenture / of the repair
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                                  That shal be to youre hous / by cause of me
                                
                                  Or in som oother place / may wel be
                                
                                  Now chees your seluen / wheither þat yow liketh
                                
                                  ¶ This knyght auyseth hym / and soore siketh
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                                  But atte laste / he seyde in this manere
                                
                                  My lady and my loue / and wyf so deere
                                
                                  I putte me / in youre wise gouernance
                                
                                  Cheseth youre self which þat may be moost plesance
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                                  And moost honour to yow / and me also
                                
                                  I do no fors / the wheither of the two
                                
                                  ffor as yow liketh / it suffiseth me
                                
                                  ¶ Than haue I gete / of yow maistrye / quod she
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                                  Syn I may chese / and gouerne as me lest
                                
                                  ¶ Ye certes wyf quod he / I holde it best
                                
                                  ¶ Kys me quod she / we be no lenger wrothe
                                
                                  ffor by my trouthe / I wol be to yow bothe
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                                  This is to seyn / ye bothe fair and good
                                
                                  I pray to god / that I mote steruen wood
                                
                                  But I to yow / be al so good and trewe
                                
                                  As euere was wyf/ syn þat the world was newe

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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 164
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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