The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 335] 
                                  
                                  Vppon þis noumbre diffinicioun
                                
                                  Men may diuine and glosen vp and doun
                                
                                  But wel I wot wiþouten eny lye
                                
                                  God bad vs for to. wax and multiplie
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                                  That gentil tixt. can I wel vnderstonde
                                
                                  Ek wel I wot he sayd myn housebonde
                                
                                  Schuld lete fader and moder and folwe me [folio 87a] 
                                
                                  But of no noumber mencioun made he
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                                  Of Bygamye. or of Octogomye /
                                
                                  why schuld men speken of þat vilonye /
                                
                                  lo hier þe wise kyng Daun Salamon
                                
                                  I trow he hadde wyfes mo þan oon.
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                                  As wold god it were leful vnto me
                                
                                  To be refreisshed half so oft as he
                                
                                  which ȝift of god had he for alle his wyuys
                                
                                  No man haþ such þat in þe world on lyue is
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                                  God wot þis nobil king as to my wit
                                
                                  The firste night had many a mery fit/
                                
                                  with ech of hem so wel was him on lyue
                                
                                  I-blessid be god þat I haue weddid fyue
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                                  welcome þe sixte whan þat euer he schal
                                
                                  For sothe I nyl not kepe me chast in al
                                
                                  whan myn housbond is fro þe world I-gon
                                
                                  Som cristne man schal wedde me anoon
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                                  For þan þapostil saith þat I am fre
                                
                                  To wedde a goddis haf wher so it be
                                
                                  he saith þat to be weddid is no synne
                                
                                  Bet is to be weddid þan to brynne
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                                  what recchith me what folk sayn viloyne
                                
                                  Of schrewith lameth or of Bigamye /
                                
                                  I wot wel abram was an holy man
                                
                                  And Iacob eek as ferforth as I can
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                                  And ech of hem had wyues mo than tuo
                                
                                  And many another holy man also
                                
                                  whan sawe ȝe in eny maner age
                                
                                  That highe god defendid mariage

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 195
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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