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

                                
                                     [6-text p 346] 
                                  
                                  I nold not spare hem at her oughne bord
                                
                                  For by my trouþe I quyt hem word for word
                                
                                  Als help me verray god omnipotent /
                                
                                  Þough I right now schuld make my testament
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  I owe hem nought a word þat it nys quitte
                                
                                  I brought it so aboute by my witte
                                
                                  Þat þay most ȝeue it vp as for þe best
                                
                                  Or ellis had we neuer ben in rest
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  For þough he loked as a grym lyoun
                                
                                  Ȝit schuld he fayle of his conclusioun
                                
                                  Than wold I say . now goode leef tak keep
                                
                                  how mekly lokith wilkyn oure scheep
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                                  Com ner my spouse let me ba þy cheke
                                
                                  Ȝe schulde be al pacient and meke
                                
                                  And haue a swete spiced consciens
                                
                                  Siþþen ȝe preche so of Iopes paciens
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                                  Suffreth alway syns ȝe so wel can preche
                                
                                  And but ȝe do certeyn we schul ȝow teche /
                                
                                  That it is fair to haue a wyf in pees
                                
                                  On of vs tuo mot bowe douteles
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  And siþþen man is more resonable
                                
                                  Than womman is . ȝe moste be suffrable
                                
                                  what aylith ȝow . þus for to grucche and grone
                                
                                  Is it for ȝe wold haue my queynt allone /
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                                  why tak it al . lo haue it euery del
                                
                                  Peter I schrewe ȝow but ȝe loue it wel
                                
                                  For if I wolde selle my bele chose /
                                
                                  I couþe walk as freisch as eny rose
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  But I wol kepe it for ȝoure owne toth [folio 92b] 
                                
                                  Ȝe ben to blame by god I say ȝow soth /
                                
                                  Such maner wordes hadde we on honde
                                
                                  Now wol I speke of my fourth housbonde /
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                                  My fourþe housbond was a reuelour
                                
                                  This is to say he had a paramour
                                
                                  I was ȝong and ful of ragerie
                                
                                  Stiborn and strong and ioly as a pye

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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 206
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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