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

                                
                                     [6-text p 340] 
                                  
                                  Me nedith not no lenger doon diligence
                                
                                  To wynne her loue or doon hem reuerence
                                
                                  Thay loued me so wel by god aboue
                                
                                  That I tolde no deynte of her loue
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                                  A wys womman wol bysi hir euer in oon
                                
                                  To gete hir loue þere sche hath noon
                                
                                  But synnes I had hem holly in myn hond
                                
                                  And synnes þay had me ȝeuen al her lond
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                                  what schuld I take keep hem for to please
                                
                                  But it were for my profyt and myn ease /
                                
                                  I sette hem so on werke by my fay
                                
                                  That many a night þay songen weylaway
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                                  The bacoun was nought fet for hem I trowe
                                
                                  That som men fecche in Essex an donmowe
                                
                                  I gouerned hem so wel after my lawe
                                
                                  That ech of hem ful blisful was and fawe
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                                  To bringe me gaye þinges fro þe faire [folio 89b] 
                                
                                  Þay were ful glad whan I spak to hem faire
                                
                                  For god it woot I chidde hem spitously
                                
                                  Now herkeneþ how I bar me proprely
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                                  Ȝe wise wyues þat can vnderstonde
                                
                                  Þus scholde ȝe speke and bere hem wrong on honde
                                
                                  For half so boldely can þer no man
                                
                                  Swere and lye as can a womman
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                                  I say not by wyues þat ben wise
                                
                                  But if it be whan þay ben mysauise
                                
                                  I-wis a wif if þat sche can hir good
                                
                                  schal beren him on hond þe cow is wood
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                                  And take witnes on hir oughne mayde /
                                
                                  Of hire assent/. but herkeniþ how I sayde
                                
                                  See olde Caynard is þis þin array
                                
                                  why is my neghebores wif so gay
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                                  Sche is honoured ouer al þer sche goth
                                
                                  I sitte at hom I haue no thrifty cloth /
                                
                                  what dostow at my neighebores hous
                                
                                  Is sche so fair . what artow amorous

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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 200
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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