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

                                
                                     [6-text p 365] 
                                  
                                  þat vnder erþe is graue or liþe aboue
                                
                                  Bot if þat .I. þi wif were and þi loue
                                
                                  Mi loue quod he nay my . dampnacione
                                
                                  Alas þat any of my nacione
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                                  Schold euere so foule disparaged bue
                                
                                  Bot al for nouht þe ende is þis þat he
                                
                                  Constreigned was he nedes most he hir wedde
                                
                                  And takeþ þis olde wif and goþ to bedde
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                                  Now wold sum men seine parauenture
                                
                                  Þat for my necligence .I. do no cure
                                
                                  To tel ȝowe þe Ioye and þe arraye
                                
                                  Þat att þe feste was þilke daye
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                                  To whiche þinge schortely ansewere .I. schal.
                                
                                  .I. seie þer was no ioye ne fest att al
                                
                                  Þer nas bot heuynes and muche sorwe
                                
                                  For priuely he wede hire on morwe
                                  Line 1080 
                                
                                  And al daie after hidde him as an owle
                                
                                  So woo was him his wif loked so foule.
                                
                                  Grete was þe sorwe þe knyht had in his þouht [folio 100a] 
                                
                                  Whan he was wiþ his wyf ybedde brouht
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                                  He waloweþ and torneþ to and fro
                                
                                  His olde [wyf] laye smyleinge euermo
                                
                                  And seide Dere husbonde o benedicite
                                
                                  Fareþ euery knyht þus wiþ his wif as ȝe
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                                  Is þis þe lawe of kinge Arþors house
                                
                                  Is euery knyht of his þus daungerous
                                
                                  .I. am ȝoure loue and eke ȝoure wif
                                
                                  .I. am sche whiche saued haþ ȝoure lif
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                                  And sertes ȝit dide .I. ȝowe neuer vnriht
                                
                                  Whi fare ȝe þus wiþ me þe first niht
                                
                                  Ȝe faren like a man þat had lost his witte
                                
                                  Fy what is my gilte for goddes loue tell itte
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                                  And it schal bue amended if .I. maie
                                
                                  Amend quod þis knyht nay naye
                                
                                  That wil nouht bue amendede neuere mo
                                
                                  Þou ert so loþely and so olde also

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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 244
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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