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

                                
                                     [6-text p 454] 
                                  
                                  ffor þanne he seyde his spirit was at eese
                                
                                  þen is quod he no þing may me displese /
                                
                                  Saue o þing prikeþ in my conscience
                                
                                  þe which I wol reherse in ȝoure presence /
                                  Line 1636 
                                
                                  I haue quod he herd seyd ful ȝore ago
                                
                                  þer may no man han parfyt blisses tuo
                                
                                  þis is to say in erþe and eek in heuene
                                
                                  ffor þey he kepte him fro þe synnes seuene
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                                  And eek for euery braunche of þilke tre
                                
                                  ȝit is þer so parfit prosperite
                                
                                  And so gret ese and lust in mariage
                                
                                  þat euer I am agast now in myn age
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                                  þat I schal lede now so mery a lijf
                                
                                  [so delicate withouten wo / or striff [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14; no gap in Corpus.]] 
                                
                                  that I shal haue myn heuen / in erthe] heere
                                
                                  ffor siþenes þat verray heuene is bought so deere
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                                  Wiþ tribulacion and gret penaunce
                                
                                  how scholde I lyue in such plesaunce
                                
                                  As alle wedded men doþ wiþ here wyues /
                                
                                  Come to þe blisse þer crist eterne on lyue is
                                  Line 1652 
                                
                                  þis is my drede and ȝit myn breþeren tweye
                                
                                  Assoylleþ me þis question I ȝou preye
                                
                                  Iustynus which þat hated his folye
                                
                                  Answeryng anon riȝt in his Iapere
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                                  And for he wolde his longe tale abregge
                                
                                  he wolde non auctorite alegge [folio 150a] 
                                
                                  But seyde sire so þer be non obstacle
                                
                                  Oþer þan þis god of his heih miracle
                                  Line 1660 
                                
                                  And of his mercy may so for ȝou wirche
                                
                                  þat er ȝe han ȝour ȝiftes of holy chirche
                                
                                  ȝe may repente of wedded mannes lijf
                                
                                  In which ye sayn þer is neiþer woo ne strijf
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                                  And elles god forbede but if he sente
                                
                                  A wedded man grace to repente
                                
                                  Wel often raþer þan a sengil man
                                
                                  And þerfore sire þe beste reed I can

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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 332
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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