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

                                
                                     [6-text p 459] 
                                  
                                  And þus to his priue freendes seyde he
                                
                                  ffor goddes loue as sone as it may be
                                
                                  let voyden alle þis hous in curteys wyse soone
                                  Line 1815 
                                
                                  Men drunken and þe trauers drowe anone
                                  Line 1817 
                                
                                  The bryde was brouȝt to bedde as stille as stoon
                                  Line 1818 
                                
                                  So hastede Ianuer it moste be doon [[spurious]] 
                                
                                  And whan þe bed was wiþ þe prest y-blessed
                                
                                  Out of þe chambre haþ euery wight him dressed
                                  Line 1820 
                                
                                  And Ianuare haþ faste in armes take
                                
                                  his freissche may his paradys his make
                                
                                  he lulliþ hire he kisseþ hire ful ofte
                                
                                  Wiþ þikke brystles of his berd vnsofte
                                  Line 1824 
                                
                                  Ylike to þe skyn of an houndfissh scharp as brere
                                
                                  ffor he was schaue al newe in his manere
                                
                                  he rubbeþ hire vpon hire tendre face
                                
                                  And sayde þus allas I mot trespace
                                  Line 1828 
                                
                                  To ȝou my spouse and ȝou gretly offende
                                
                                  Or tyme come þat I wol doun descende
                                
                                  But naþeles considereþ þis quod he
                                
                                  þis nys no werkman what so euer he be
                                  Line 1832 
                                
                                  þat may boþe wirche wel and hastely
                                
                                  þis wol be don at leyser parfitly
                                
                                  It is no force how longe þat we pleye
                                
                                  I trowe in wedlok coupled be we tweye
                                  Line 1836 
                                
                                  And y-blessed be þe ȝok þat we ben Inne
                                
                                  ffor in oure actis we may do no synne / [folio 152b] 
                                
                                  A man may do no synne wiþ his wijf
                                
                                  Ne hurte himselue wiþ his owene knyf
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  Now we han leue to pleye vs by þe lawe
                                
                                  Thus laboureþ he til þat þe day gan dawe
                                
                                  And þenne he takeþ a soppe in fyn clarre
                                
                                  And vpright in his bedde þanne sitteþ he /
                                  Line 1844 
                                
                                  And after þat he sang ful lowde and cleere
                                
                                  And kissed his wijf and made wantoun cheere
                                
                                  he was al coltissch and ful of ragerie
                                
                                  And ful of Girgoun as is a flekked pye /

                                  Line 1848

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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 337
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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