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

                                
                                     [6-text p 455] 
                                  
                                  Dispeireþ ȝowe nouȝt haueþ in memorie
                                
                                  Perauenture sche maie be ȝoure purgarie
                                
                                  Sche maie bue goddes mene and goddes whippe
                                
                                  þan schal ȝoure soule vp to heuen skippe
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                                  Swifter þan doþ an arwe oute of a bowe
                                
                                  .I. hope to gode here afterwarde schalt þou knowe
                                
                                  þat þere ne is so grete felicite
                                
                                  In mariage ne neuer more schal be
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                                  þat ȝe schal lache of ȝoure saluacion
                                
                                  So þat ȝe vse as scyl is and reson
                                
                                  þe lustes of ȝoure wif attemperaly
                                
                                  And þat ȝe plese hire nouht to amorously
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                                  And þat ȝe kepe ȝoue eke fro oþere sinne [folio 134a] 
                                
                                  Mi tale is done for my witt is þinne
                                
                                  Beþe nouht agast here-of my broþer
                                
                                  Bo[t] lat vs wade fro þis matire to anoþer
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                                  Þe wif of baþe if ȝe haue vnderstonde
                                
                                  On mariage whiche ȝe haue on honde
                                
                                  Declared haþe ful wel in litel space
                                
                                  Fareþ nowe wele god haue ȝowe in his grace
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                                  And wiþþe þis word þis Iustine and his broþer
                                
                                  Haue [take] here leue and elke of hem of oþer
                                
                                  For whan þei sawhe it most nedes bue
                                
                                  Thei wrouht so be wise sleiht and trete
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                                  þat sche þis maide wiche þat Mayus hiht
                                
                                  As hastifly as euer þat sche myht
                                
                                  Schal wedded bue vn-to Ianuarie
                                
                                  .I. trowe it were to longe ȝoue to tarie
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                                  If .I. ȝowe tolde of euery scrite or bande
                                
                                  Be whiche þat sche was ffeffed in his lande
                                
                                  Oþere for to herken of her riche araie
                                
                                  Bot finaly commen is þis daie
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                                  þat to þe chirche boþe bue þei went
                                
                                  For to receyuen þe holy sacrament
                                
                                  Forþ comeþ þe preste wiþ þe stole aboute his nek
                                
                                  And badd hir be like Sarra and Rebek

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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 333
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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