The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  ffor .I. will tell a legende and a lif
                                
                                  Boþen of a carpenter and his wif
                                
                                  Howe þat a clerke haþe sette þe wrihtes cappe
                                
                                  The reue ansewerde stinte þi clappe
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                                  Latt bue þi lewed dronken harlotrie
                                
                                  It is a sinne and eke grete folye
                                
                                  To appeiren any man or him defame
                                
                                  And eke to bringe wiues in suche fame
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                                  Þou maist ynouhe of oþere þinges saine
                                
                                  This dronken Meller spak ful sone aȝeine
                                
                                  And seid leue broþer oswolde
                                
                                  Who haþe no wif he is no cokewolde
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                                  But .I. seie nouȝt þere-fore þat þou art oon
                                
                                  Ther bene ful gode wives Many on
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                  Whi ert þou angri wiþ my tale nowe
                                
                                  I. haue a wife perde as wele as þowe
                                
                                  ȝete nolde .I. note for þe oxen in my plouhe
                                
                                  Tak vpon me more þan .I. nowhe
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                                  As demen of my self þat .I. were oone [folio 39b] 
                                
                                  .I. will beleue þat .I. am none
                                
                                  An husbonde schal nouht be inquisitif
                                
                                  Of goddes priuetees ne of his wif
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                                  So he may finde goddes foyson þere
                                
                                  Of þe remenant nedeþ nouht to enquere
                                
                                  What schold .I. more seie; Bot þis Mellere
                                
                                  He nolde his wordes for noman forbere
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                                  Bot [sayde] his cherles tale in his manere
                                
                                  Me aþenkeþ þat .I. schal reherce hem here
                                
                                  And þer-for euery . gentil whight .I. preie
                                
                                  Demeþ nouht for goddes loue þat .I. seie
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                                  Of yuel enten bot þat .I. mot reherce
                                
                                  Her tales al be þei better or werse
                                
                                  Or elles falsen somme of my matiere
                                
                                  And þere-fore who so list nouht to here

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 90
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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