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

                                
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                                  Ful gulteles by goddes swete pyne
                                
                                  For as an hors I couþe boþe bite and whyne
                                
                                  I couþe pleyne and ȝet I was in þe gilt
                                
                                  Or elles I hadde often tyme be spilt
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                                  who-so first comeþ to þe mylle first grynt
                                
                                  I pleyned first so was oure werre stynt/
                                
                                  Thay were ful glad to excuse hem ful blyue
                                
                                  Of þing þat þay neuer agilt in her lyue
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                                  And wenches wold I beren hem on honde
                                
                                  whan þat/ for seek þay might vnnethes stonde
                                
                                  Ȝit tykeled I his herte for þat he
                                
                                  wende I had of him so gret/ chierete
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                                  I swor þat al my walkyng out a nyght
                                
                                  was for to aspie wenches þat he dight
                                
                                  vnder þat colour had I many a mirthe
                                
                                  For al such witte is ȝeuen vs of birthe
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                                  Deceipt wepyng . spynnyng . god haþ ȝiue
                                
                                  To wymmen kyndely whil þay may lyue
                                
                                  And þus of o thing I auaunte me /
                                
                                  And þende I had þe bet in ech degre
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                                  By sleight or fors or of som maner þing
                                
                                  As by continuel murmur or chidyng
                                
                                  Namly on bedde hadden þay meschaunce
                                
                                  Ther wold I chide and do hem no plesaunce
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                                  I wold no lenger in þe bed abyde /
                                
                                  If þat I felt his arm ouer my syde
                                
                                  Til he had maad his raunsoun vnto me [folio 92a] 
                                
                                  Than wold I suffre him doon his nycete
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                                  And þerfor euery man þis tale telle
                                
                                  wynne who-so may for al is for to selle
                                
                                  wiþ empty hond men may noon haukes lure
                                
                                  For wynnyng wold I al his lust endure
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                                  And make me a feyned appetyt/
                                
                                  And ȝit in bacoun had I neuer delyt
                                
                                  That made me þat euer I wold hem chyde
                                
                                  For þough þe pope had seten hem bisyde

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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 205
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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