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

                                
                                  And þus þe swete clerke his time spente
                                
                                  Affeter his frendes findeynge and his rente
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                                  This Carpenter had wedded newe a wif
                                
                                  Whiche þat he loued more þan his lif
                                
                                  Of .xviij. ȝere sche was of age
                                
                                  Ielous he was and helde hire narwe in cage
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                                  ffor sche was wilde and ȝonge and he was holde
                                
                                  And demed him self bene like a cokewolde
                                
                                  He knewe nouȝt Caton for his witte was rude
                                
                                  That bad men wedde his similitude
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                                  Men scholde wedde after hire astate
                                
                                  ffor ȝouþe and elde is often att debate
                                
                                  Bot seþen þat he was fallen in þe snare
                                
                                  He moste endure as oþere folke his kare
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                                  ffaire was þis ȝonge wif and þerto wiþ al
                                
                                  As any wesel [[l: later]]  hir bodi gente and smal
                                
                                  A seinte sche wered barred al of silke
                                
                                  A barmecloþe as white as any morwes mylke
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                                  Vppon hire lendes fol of mony a gore
                                
                                  White was hire smoke and broude al be-fore
                                
                                  And eke be-hinde on hire colere aboute
                                
                                  Of cole blak silke within and eke with-oute.
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                                  The tapes of hir white volupere
                                
                                  Were of þe same sute of hire colere
                                
                                  Hire felet broode of silke and sitt ful [[l: later]]  hihe
                                
                                  And sekurly sche had a lykuruse eye
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                                  fful small y-pulled was hire browes two.
                                
                                  And þo were bente. and blake as any. slo.
                                
                                  Sche was ful more blisfull for to see [folio 40b] 
                                
                                  Thane is þe newe perionet tree
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                                  And softer þan wolle is of a weþer
                                
                                  And be hir gyrdel [[gyrdel: later]]  hinge a purs of leþere
                                
                                  Tassilde wiþ selke a[n]d perlid wiþ laton
                                
                                  In al þis werlde to seken vpe and downe
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                                  Þere is noman so wise þat couþe þenche
                                
                                  So Gaye a popelote or swiche a wenche

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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 93
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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