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

                                
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                                  Than were þay maad vp a creature
                                
                                  To purge vryn and eek for engendrure
                                
                                  By I say not þat euery wight is holde
                                
                                  That haþ such harneys as I to ȝow tolde
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                                  To gon and vsen hem in engendrure
                                
                                  Than schuld men take of chastite no cure
                                
                                  Crist was a mayde and schapen as a man
                                
                                  And many a seynt sin þat þe world bygan
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                                  Ȝit lyued þay euer in parfyt charite
                                
                                  I nyl enuye no virginite
                                
                                  let hem be bred of pured whete seed
                                
                                  And let vs wyues eten barly breed
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                                  And ȝet wiþ barly bred men telle can [folio 88b] 
                                
                                  Oure lord refreisschid many a man
                                
                                  In such astaat as god haþ cleped ous
                                
                                  I wil perseuer I am not precious
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                                  In wyfhode I wil vse myn instrument
                                
                                  Als frely as my maker haþ me it sent
                                
                                  If I be daungerous god ȝiue me sorwe
                                
                                  Myn housbond schal han it at eue and at morwe
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                                  whan þat him list com forth and pay his dette
                                
                                  An housbond wol I haue I wol not lette /
                                
                                  which schal be boþe my dettour and my þral
                                
                                  And haue his tribulacioun wiþ al
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                                  vpon his fleissch whil þat I am his wyf
                                
                                  I haue þe power duryng al my lif
                                
                                  vpon his propre body and not he /
                                
                                  Right þus þapostil told it vnto me /
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                                  And bad oure housbondes for to loue vs wel
                                
                                  Al þis sentence me likith euery del
                                
                                  ¶ vp start þe pardoner and þat anoon
                                
                                  Now dame quod he by god and by seint Iohn
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                                  Ȝe ben a noble prechour in þis caas
                                
                                  I was aboute to wedde a wif allaas
                                
                                  what schal I buy it on my fleisch so deere
                                
                                  Ȝit had I leuer wedde no wif to ȝere

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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 198
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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