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

                                
                                     [6-text p 341] 
                                  
                                  what roune ȝe wiþ hir maydenes benedicite
                                
                                  Sir olde lecchour let þi iapes be
                                
                                  And if I haue a gossib or a frend
                                
                                  wiþouten gilt þou chidest as a fend
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                                  If þat I walk and play vnto his hous
                                
                                  Þou comest hom as dronken as a mous
                                
                                  And prechist on þy bench wiþ euel pree.
                                
                                  Þou saist to me it is a gret meschief
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                                  To wedde a pouer womman for costage /
                                
                                  And if þat sche be riche and of parage
                                
                                  Thanne saist þou it/ is a tormentrie
                                
                                  To suffre hir pride and hir malencolie
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                                  And if þat sche be fair þou verray knaue
                                
                                  Þou saist þat euery holour wol hir haue
                                
                                  Sche may no while in chastite abyde
                                
                                  That is assayled þus on eche syde
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                                  Þou saist þat som folk desire vs for riches
                                
                                  Som for our schap and som for our fairnes
                                
                                  And some for þat sche can synge and daunce [folio 90a] 
                                
                                  And some for gentilesse or daliaunce
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                                  Som for hir handes and hir armes smale /
                                
                                  Thus goth al to þe deuel by þi tale
                                
                                  Thou saist men may nought kepe a castel wal
                                
                                  Hit may so be biseged ouer al
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                                  And if sche be foul . þanne þou saist þat sche
                                
                                  Coueitith euery man þat sche may se /
                                
                                  For as a spaynel sche wol on him lepe
                                
                                  Til þat sche fynde som man hire to chepe
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                                  Ne noon so gray a goos goþ in þe lake /
                                
                                  As sayest þou wol be wiþouten make /
                                
                                  And saist it is an hard þing for to wolde
                                
                                  Thing þat no man wol . his willes holde
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                                  Thus seistow lorel whan þou gost to bedde
                                
                                  And þat no wys man nedith for to wedde /
                                
                                  Ne no man þat entendiþ vnto heuene
                                
                                  wiþ wilde þunder dynt and fuyry leuene

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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 201
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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