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

                                
                                     [6-text p 345] 
                                  
                                  Ful giltelesse be goddes swete pine
                                
                                  For as an hors .I. couþe boþe bite and whyne
                                
                                  .I. couþe pleine. and .I. was in þe gilte [folio 92a] 
                                
                                  Or elles oft time .I. had bue spilte
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                                  Who-so þat first to mell comeþ first grindeþ
                                
                                  .I. pleyned first so .I. owre werre stinteþ
                                
                                  Thei were ful gladde to excusen hem ful bliue
                                
                                  Of þinge whiche þei gilt neuer her lyue
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                                  Of wenches wolde .I. beren hem on honde
                                
                                  Whann þat for seke vnneþ þei myht stonde
                                
                                  Ȝit tikeled .I. his hert for þat he
                                
                                  Wend .I. hadde of him so grete cherte
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                                  .I. swore þat al my walkynge be nyht
                                
                                  Was to aspye wenches þat he diht
                                
                                  Vnder þat colour had .I. mony a myrþe
                                
                                  For al suche witte is ȝeue us in owre birþe
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                                  Desceite wepeynge spynnynge . god haþe ȝeue [¶ Fallere flere nere dedit deus in Muliere] 
                                
                                  To womman kindely while þat þei maie leue
                                
                                  And þus of o þinge .I. auaunt me
                                
                                  Att þe ende .I. had þe beste in yche degre
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                                  Be sleyȝt or force or be sum manere þinge
                                
                                  As by continuel murmur or grucchinge
                                
                                  Namely abedde had þei muschaunce
                                
                                  Ther wolde .I. chide and do hem no plesance
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                                  .I. wolde no longer in þe bedde abide
                                
                                  If þat .I. felte his arme ouer my side
                                
                                  Til he had made his raunson vn-to me
                                
                                  Than wolde .I. suffre him do his nycete
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                                  ¶ And þer-for euery man þis tale .I. telle
                                
                                  Wyue who so maie al her for to sell
                                
                                  Wiþþe empty hande men may none haukes lure
                                
                                  For wynynge wold .I. al his lust endure
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                                  And make me a feyned appetite
                                
                                  And ȝit in bacon had .I. neuere delyte
                                
                                  That maked me þat euer y wolde him chide
                                
                                  For þouhe þe pope had sette him be side

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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 224
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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