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

                                  
                                       [6-text p 551] 
                                    
                                    By cause of þat he gan so neigh to drawe /
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                                    his ȝoman. þat he herde alle his sawe /
                                  
                                    And þus he sayde vnto his ȝoman þo
                                  
                                    holde now þy pees and speke wordes no mo /
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                                    ffor if þou dost þou schalt it dere abye
                                  
                                    Thou sclaundrest me here in þis compaignye
                                  
                                    And eek discouerest þat þou scholdest hyde
                                  
                                    ȝee quod oure hoost telle on what so betyde
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                                    Of alle þis þretyng recche I nat a myte
                                  
                                    I faiþ quod he no more do I but a lite
                                  
                                    And whan þis Chanon say it wolde nat be
                                  
                                    But his ȝoman wolde telle his priuyte
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                                    he fledde away for verray sorwe and schame /
                                  
                                    A quod þe ȝoman here schal aryse a game [folio 180a] 
                                  
                                    Al þat I can anon right/ wol I telle
                                  
                                    Siþens he is gon þe foule feend him quelle /
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                                    ffor neuer her after wol I wiþ him mete
                                  
                                    ffor peny ne for pound I ȝou biheete /
                                  
                                    he þat me broughte ferst vnto þat game /
                                  
                                    Er þat he deye sorwe haue he and schame
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                                    ffor it is ernest to me by my fayþ
                                  
                                    That feele I wel what so eny man saiþ /
                                  
                                    And ȝit for al my smert and al my greef
                                  
                                    ffor al my sorwe labour and mescheef
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                                    I couþe neuer leue it in no wyse
                                  
                                    Now wolde god my witt/ mighte suffise
                                  
                                    To tellen al þat longeþ to þat art
                                  
                                    But naþeles ȝit wol I telle a part
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                                    Syþens þat my lord is gon I wol not spare
                                  
                                    Such þing as I knowe I wol declare / [[No break in the MS.]]

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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 401
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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