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

                                
                                     [6-text p 455] 
                                  
                                  Dispeyreþ ȝou nouȝt haueþ in memory
                                
                                  Paraunter sche may be ȝour purgatory
                                
                                  Sche may be goddes mene and goddes whippe
                                
                                  þan schal ȝour soule vp to heuene skippe
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                                  Swifter þan doþ an arwe out of a bowe
                                
                                  I hope to god her-after schalt þou knowe
                                
                                  þat þer nys non so gret felicite
                                
                                  In mariage ne neuer more schal be
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                                  þat ȝou schal lakke of ȝour saluacion
                                
                                  So þat ȝe vse as skile is and resoun
                                
                                  þe lustes of ȝour wijf attemperelly
                                
                                  And þat ȝe plese hir nouȝt to amerously
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                                  And þat ȝe kepe ȝou eek fro oþer synne /
                                
                                  Myn tale is doon for my witte is þinne
                                
                                  Beþ nouȝt agast here-of my broþer
                                
                                  But let vs wade fro þis mater to anoþer
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                                  þe wijf of Bathe if ȝe han vnderstonde
                                
                                  Of mariage which ȝe han on honde
                                
                                  Declared haþ ful wel in litel space
                                
                                  ffareþ now wel god haue ȝou in his grace
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                                  And wiþ þis word þis Iustyne and his broþer
                                
                                  han take here leue and ilke of hem of oþer
                                
                                  ffor whan þey sawe it moste needes be
                                
                                  þey wrouȝten so by wys and sleigh trete
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                                  þat sche þis mayden which þat mayus hight
                                
                                  As hastely as euer þat sche might [folio 150b] 
                                
                                  Schal wedded be vnto Ianuarie /
                                
                                  It trowe it were to long ȝou to tarie
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                                  If I ȝou tolde of euery scryt or band
                                
                                  By which þat sche was feffed in his land
                                
                                  Oþer for to herken of hire riche aray
                                
                                  But fynally y-comen is þis day
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                                  That to þe chirche boþe ben þey went
                                
                                  ffor to resceyue þe holy sacrament
                                
                                  fforþ comþ þe prest wiþ stole aboute his nekke /
                                
                                  And bad hire be ylike Sarra and Rebekke

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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 333
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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