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

                                
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                                  Wher in no boke ȝe gentil of honoure [folio 101b] 
                                
                                  Seine þat men scholde an olde wife do fauoure
                                
                                  And clepe her moder for her gentillesse
                                
                                  An Auctours schal .I. finde as .I. gesse
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                                  Nowe þere ȝe seine þat .I. am foule and olde
                                
                                  Þan drede ȝowe nouht to be no cokewolde
                                
                                  For filþe and helþe as mot .I. þe
                                
                                  Bene grete werdeins vpon chastite
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                                  Bot naþeles sen .I. knowe ȝoure delite
                                
                                  .I. scha[l] ful-fill ȝoure werly appetite
                                
                                  Chese nowe quod sche one of þis þinges tweye
                                
                                  To haue me foule and olde til þat .I. deie
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                                  And be to ȝowe a trewe humble wif
                                
                                  And neuer ȝoue displese in al my lif
                                
                                  Or elles ȝe wil haue me ȝonge and faire
                                
                                  And take ȝoure auenture of þe repaire
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                                  That schal com to ȝoure house be cause of me
                                
                                  Or in sume oþere place wel maie be
                                
                                  Nowe chese ȝoure seluen wheþer þat ȝou likeþ
                                
                                  This knyht a-vised him and sore he sikeþ
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                                  Bot att þe last he seide in þis manere
                                
                                  My lady and my loue and wife so dere
                                
                                  .I. putte me in ȝoure wise gouernaunce
                                
                                  Gesseþ ȝoure self whiche maie be most plesaunce
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                                  And most honour to ȝowe and me also
                                
                                  .I. do no force wheþer of þe tue
                                
                                  For as ȝowe likeþ it sufficet me
                                
                                  Than haue .I. gete of ȝowe þe maistre quod sche
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                                  Sen .I. may chese and gouerne as me lest
                                
                                  Ȝe sertes wif quod he .I. holde it for þe best
                                
                                  Kisse me quod sche we be no longer wroþe
                                
                                  For be my trowþe .I. will be to ȝowe boþe
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                                  Þis is seine to be to ȝowe boþe feire and goode
                                
                                  .I. praie to god þat .I. mot steruen woode
                                
                                  Bot .I. to ȝowe be also sadde and trewe
                                
                                  As euer was wif sen þat þe werlde was newe

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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 248
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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