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

                                
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                                  Ne shal I neuere / for to gon to helle
                                
                                  Biwreye a word / of thyng þat ye me telle
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                                  Nat for no cosynage / ne alliance
                                
                                  But verraily / for loue and affiance
                                
                                  Thus been they sworn / and her vp on they keste
                                
                                  And ech of hem / tolde oother what hem leste
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                                  ¶ Cosyn quod she / if þat I hadde a space
                                
                                  As I haue noon / and namely in this place
                                
                                  Thanne wolde I telle / a legende of my lyf
                                
                                  What I haue suffred / sith I was a wyf
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                                  With myn housbonde / al be he youre cosyn
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod this Monk by god and Seint Martin
                                
                                  He is namore / cosyn vn to me
                                
                                  Than is this leef þat hangeth on the tree
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                                  I clepe hym so / by Seint Denys of ffrance
                                
                                  To han / the moore cause of aqueyntance
                                
                                  Of yow / which I haue loued specially
                                
                                  Abouen alle wommen / sikerly
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                                  This swere I yow / on my profession
                                
                                  Telleth youre grief / lest þat he come adoun
                                
                                  And hasteth yow / and goth awey anon [folio 206a] 
                                
                                  ¶ My deere loue quod she / o my daun Iohn
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                                  fful lief were me / this conseil for to hyde
                                
                                  But out it moot I may namoore abyde
                                
                                  ¶ Myn housbonde is to me / the worste man
                                
                                  That euere was / sith þat the world bigan
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                                  But sith I am a wyf / it sit nat me
                                
                                  To tellen no wight of oure priuetee
                                
                                  Neither abedde / ne in noon oother place
                                
                                  God shilde / I sholde it tellen for his grace
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                                  A wyf ne shal nat seyn / of hir housbonde
                                
                                  But al honour / as I kan vnderstonde
                                
                                  Saue vn to yow / thus muche I tellen shal
                                
                                  As help me god / he is noght worth at al
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                                  In no degree / the value of a flye
                                
                                  But yet me greueth moost his nygardye

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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 474
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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