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

                                
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                                  And ȝit also I seye forþermore
                                
                                  Of pokkes of scabbes and of euery sore
                                
                                  Schal euery scheep be hool þat of þis welle
                                
                                  Drinkeþ a draught and take keep what I telle
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                                  Wole euery wight er þat þe cok him croweþ
                                
                                  And do þing þat him oweþ
                                
                                  ffastynge drinke of þis welle a draught
                                
                                  As þilke holy iewe oure eldre ous taught
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                                  his bestes and his store schal multiplye
                                
                                  And sires also it heleþ Ielousie
                                
                                  And þey a man be falle in gelouse rage
                                
                                  Let make wiþ þis water his potage
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                                  And neuer schal he more his wijf mystreste
                                
                                  þey he in soþe a defaute by hire wiste
                                
                                  Al had sche taken prestes tuo or þre
                                
                                  heer is a myteyn eek as ȝe may see [folio 196a] 
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                                  he þat his hond wol putte in þat myteyne
                                
                                  he schal haue multiplyyng of his greyne
                                
                                  When he haþ sowen be it whete or ootes
                                
                                  So þat of pens oþer elles of grootes
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                                  And men and wommen o þing warne I ȝou
                                
                                  If any wight be in þis chirche now
                                
                                  That haþ don synne orrible þat he
                                
                                  Dar nought for schame schriuen be
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                                  Or eny womman be sche ȝong or old
                                
                                  þat haþ y-maad hire housbonde kokewold
                                
                                  Such folk schuln haue no power ne grace
                                
                                  To offre to my relikes in þis place
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                                  And who so fyndeþ him out of such blame
                                
                                  þey wole come vp and offre in goddes name
                                
                                  And I assoile him by þe auctorite
                                
                                  Which þat by bulle was y-graunted me
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                                  By þis gande haue I wonne euery ȝere
                                
                                  An hundred mark seþenes I was pardonere
                                
                                  I stande lik a clerk in many a pulpette
                                
                                  And schewe lewed poeple and doun þey sette

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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 437
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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