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

                                
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                                  Wommen ful trewe ful good ful vertuous
                                
                                  Witnesse on hem þat dwellen in cristes hous
                                
                                  Wiþ martirdom þey prouyd hir [[MS h]]  constance
                                
                                  þe Romayne Iestes maken remembrance
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                                  Of many a verray trewe wijf also
                                
                                  but sire ne beþ nouȝt wroþ as be it so
                                
                                  þouȝ þat he seyde he fond no good womman
                                
                                  I pray ȝou take þe sentence of þe man
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                                  he mente þus þat in souerayne bounte
                                
                                  Nis non but god but neyþer he ne sche
                                
                                  Ey for verray god þat nys but oon
                                
                                  What make ȝe so moche of Salamon
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                                  What þough he made a temple goddes hous
                                
                                  What þough he were riche and glorious
                                
                                  So made he a temple of false godis
                                
                                  Who mighte do a þing þat more forbode is
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                                  Parde as fayr as he his name in-plastre
                                
                                  he was a lecchour and an ydolastre
                                
                                  And in his eelde he verry god forsook
                                
                                  And if þat god ne hadde as seiþ þe book
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                                  y-spared him for his fadres sake he scholde
                                
                                  haue lost his regne sonner þan he wolde
                                
                                  I sette nouȝt of alle þe vylenye
                                
                                  þat ȝe of wommen wite a bottirflye
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                                  I am a womman needes moot I speke
                                
                                  Oþer elles swelle til myn herte breke
                                
                                  ffor siþenes he seyde þat we ben Iangeleresses
                                
                                  As euer mote I brouke boþe my tresses [folio 159a] 
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                                  I schal not spare for no curtesye
                                
                                  To speke him harm þat wolde vs vilanye
                                
                                  Dame quod þis pluto be no lengere wroþ
                                
                                  I ȝiue it vp but seþens I swor myn oþ
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                                  þat I wolde graunten him his sight aȝein
                                
                                  My word schal stonde þat warne I þe certayn
                                
                                  I am a king it sitt me nouȝt to lye
                                
                                  And I quod sche a queen of fayerye

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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 350
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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