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

                                
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                                  And .I. was fourty. if þat .I. schal seie soþe
                                
                                  Bot ȝit .I. had alwaie a coltes toþe
                                
                                  Gate toþede .I. was and þat be-come me wele
                                
                                  .I. had þe printe of seint venus seale
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                                  As helpe me god .I. was a lusti one
                                
                                  And faire and riche and ȝonge and wele be-gone
                                
                                  And treuly as myne husbonde tolde me [folio 94b] 
                                
                                  .I. hadde þe best quoniam þat myht be
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                                  [ffor certis/ I am all/ fulli reueryan.
                                
                                  In felyng/ & myn herte all marcian.
                                
                                  Venus/ me yaf my lust/ my likyng/ & licorousnes/.
                                
                                  And Mars/ gaf/ me my sturdi hardynes/. [Harl. 1758 folio 95a] ]
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                                  Myne asscendent was taurus and mars þere inne
                                
                                  Alas alas þat euer loue was sinne
                                
                                  .I. folowed ay myne Inclinacion
                                
                                  Be vertue of mye constillacion
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                                  þat maade me .I. couþe nouȝt wiþ-drawe
                                
                                  Mi chambre of venus frome a goode felawe
                                
                                  [yet/ haue I a marke of/ Mars vp-on my face. [Harl. 1758 folio 95a] 
                                
                                  And also in another/ pryue place.
                                
                                  ffor god so wisse be my saluacion.
                                
                                  I louyd neuyr/ bi non discrescion.
                                
                                  But euyr/ folewid myn appetite.
                                
                                  All/ were he schort/ long/ blak/ or white.
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                                  I toke no kepe so that/ he liked me.
                                
                                  How pore he was/ ne eke of what/ degre. [[Harl. 1758 ex|tract stops]] ]
                                
                                  What scold .I. seie bot at þe moneþes ende
                                
                                  This Ioly clerk Iankin þat was so hende
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                                  Haþe wedde me wiþ grete solempnite
                                
                                  And to him ȝaf .I. al þe londe and fee
                                
                                  þat euere was me ȝeuene þare before
                                
                                  Bot afterwarde repentede me ful sore
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                                  He wolde suffer no þing of my lust
                                
                                  Be god he smote me ones on þe luste
                                
                                  for þat .I. rent oute of his booke a lef
                                
                                  þat of þat stroke myne eren wexen def

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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 230
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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