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Abyd quod sche my tale is not bygonne /
Nay þou schalt drinke of anoþer tonne
Er þat I go schal sauere wors þan ale
And whan þat I haue told þe forþ my tale
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Of tribulacioun in mariage
I which I am expert/ in al myn age
This is to say my self haþ ben þe whippe
Than might þou chese wheþir þou wilt sippe
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Of þilke tonne þat I schal abroche
Be war of it er þou to neigh approche
For I schal telle ensamples mo þan ten
who-so þat nyl be war by oþer men
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By him schal oþer men corrected be
The same wordes writes protholome
Rede in his almagest and tak it þere [folio 89a]
Dame I wold pray ȝow . if þat ȝoure wille were
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Sayde þis pardoner as ȝe bigan
Tel forth ȝoure tale sparith for no man
Teche vs ȝonge men of ȝoure practike
Gladly quod sche syns it may ȝow like
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But þat I pray to al þis companye /
If þat I speke after my fantasie
As takeþ nouȝt agreef of þat I say
For myn entente is nought but/ to play / [¶ Narrat]
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NOw sires now wol I telle forth my tale
As euer mote I drinke wyn or ale
I schal say soþ of housbondes þat I hadde
As þre of hem were goode and tuo were badde
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Tuo of hem were goode riche and olde
Vnnethes mighte þay þe statute holde
In which þat þay were bounden vnto me
Ȝe wot wel what I mene of þis par de
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As help me god I laugh whan þat I þinke
how pitously on night I made hem swynke /
But by my fay I told of it no stoor
Thay had me ȝiue her lond and her tresor
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