The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 444] 
                                  
                                  and lede his liff in ioye / and in solas [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  where that these bachelers / synge alas
                                
                                  whan that thei fynden / any aduersite
                                
                                  in love / which nys but childis vanyte
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                                  and trewely hit sit wel / to be so
                                
                                  that bachelers han ofte peyne and wo
                                
                                  on brotil gronde thei bilde / and brotilnes
                                
                                  they fynden / whan thei wenyn sikernes
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                                  thei live but as a brid / or as a beste
                                
                                  in liberte / and vnder noon a-reste
                                
                                  there as a wedded man / in his estate
                                
                                  livith a liff blisful / and ordynate
                                  Line 1284 
                                
                                  vnder the yoke of mariage I-bounde
                                
                                  wel may his herte / in ioye and blis habounde
                                
                                  for who can be so boxom / as a wiff
                                
                                  who is so trewe / and eke so ententiff
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                                  to kepe him sike and hole / as his make
                                
                                  for wel or wo / she wol him not forsake
                                
                                  she is not wery / him to loue and serue
                                
                                  though that he lye bedred / til he sterve] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 extract ends]] 
                                
                                  And ȝit some clerkes seyn it nys nouȝt so [Corpus MS]  [folio 145a] 
                                
                                  Of which Theoffraste / is on of þo
                                
                                  What fors þeiȝ theofraste luste lye
                                
                                  Ne take no wijf quod he for husbandrye
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                                  As for to spare in housholde þin dispence
                                
                                  A trewe seruaunt doþ more diligence
                                
                                  þy good to kepe þan þin owen wijf
                                
                                  ffor sche wol clayme half part al hire lijf
                                  Line 1300 
                                
                                  And if þat þou be seek so god me saue
                                
                                  þy verray frendes oþer a trewe knaue
                                
                                  Wol kepe þe bet þan sche þat wayteþ ay
                                
                                  After þy good and haþ don many a day
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                                  [and if thow take a wiff / in thin age oolde
                                
                                  fful lightly maist thow be a Cokewoolde] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  To þis entente and an C siþes wurse
                                  Line 1307 
                                
                                  [writeth this man / there / god his bonys cors] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]]

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 322
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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