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

                                
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                                  To han his wijf allone trusteþ to me
                                
                                  ȝe schulle nouȝt plesen hire oonly ȝeres þre
                                
                                  þis is to seyn to don hire plesaunce
                                
                                  A wijf axeþ ful many an obseruaunce
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                                  I pray ȝou þat ȝe ne ben euyl payed
                                
                                  Wel quod þis Ianuare and hast þou al sayd
                                
                                  Straw for þyn Senek and for þy prouerbis
                                
                                  I counte nought a paner ful of herbes
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                                  Of scole termes wiser men þan þou
                                
                                  And þou hast herde assenteden right now /
                                
                                  To my purpos Placebo what say ȝe
                                
                                  I say it is a cursed man quod he
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                                  þat letteþ matrimonye sikerly
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word þay rysen sodeinly
                                
                                  And ben assented fully þat he scholde
                                
                                  Be weddid whan him luste and whan he wolde
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                                  þe fantasye and þe besy curiousnesse
                                
                                  ffro day to day gan in þe soule impresse /
                                
                                  Of Ianuare aboute his mariage /
                                
                                  many fayr schapp and many fayr visage /
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                                  þer passeþ þorgh his herte night be night
                                
                                  As whos took a myrour polisshed bright
                                
                                  And sette it in a comune market place
                                
                                  þenne scholde he se many a figure pace [folio 149a] 
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                                  By his myrour and in þe same wise
                                
                                  Gan Ianuare in wiþ his þouȝt deuyse
                                
                                  Of maydenes whiche þat dwelte besyde
                                
                                  he wiste nought wher he might abyde
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                                  ffor þouȝ þat oon haþ beaute in hire face /
                                
                                  Anoþer stant so in þe poeples grace /
                                
                                  ffor hire sadnes and hire benignite
                                
                                  þat of þe poeple grettest voys hadde sche
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                                  And some were riche and hadde badde name
                                
                                  but naþeles bitwixe ernest and game
                                
                                  he atte laste appoynted him on oon
                                
                                  And leet alle oþer fro his herte gon

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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 330
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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