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

                                
                                     [6-text p 355] 
                                  
                                  Where þat hir husbond hid him in a place
                                
                                  For whiche he hadd att Thebes sori grace
                                
                                  Off lima tolde he me . & of lucye
                                
                                  þei boþe maade her husbondes for to deye
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                                  That oone for loue þe toþer was for hate [folio 96a] 
                                
                                  Lyma hir husbonde on euen late
                                
                                  Enpoysond had for þat sche was his foo
                                
                                  Lucia likerous loued hire husbond soo
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                                  Þat for he schold vpon hire alweie þinke
                                
                                  Sche ȝaue him suche a loue maner drinke
                                
                                  þat he was dede or it was be þe morwe
                                
                                  And þus algates husbondes haue sorwe
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                                  Þan tolde he me howe one latumyus
                                
                                  Compleynede to his felawe Arius
                                
                                  That in his gardyne groued suche a tre
                                
                                  On whiche he seide þat his wyues þre
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                                  Honged hem self for hertes dispitous
                                
                                  O leue broþer quod þis Arrius
                                
                                  ȝif me a plante of þat blisful tre
                                
                                  And in my gardine plantid it schal be
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                                  ¶ Of latter date of wyues haþe he radde
                                
                                  Þat han sleyne here husbonde in her bedde
                                
                                  And lete hire lychoure diht hire al þe nyht
                                
                                  Whan þat þe cors laie in flore vpriht
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                                  And sum haue dreuen nayles in here brayne
                                
                                  While þat þei slepe and þus þei haue hem sleyne
                                
                                  Some haue ȝeuen poyson in my drynke
                                
                                  He spake more harme þan hert maie be-þinke
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                                  And þerwiþal he knewe of mo prouerbes
                                
                                  Þan in þis werlde þer growen grasse or herbes
                                
                                  Bet is quod he þin habitacione
                                
                                  Be wiþ a leoun or a foule dragone
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                                  Þan wiþ a womman vsinge for to chide
                                
                                  Better is quod he hihe in þe rofe abide
                                
                                  Þan wiþ an angre wif doun in an hous
                                
                                  Þei bene so wikked and contrarious

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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 234
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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