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

                                
                                     [6-text p 349] 
                                  
                                  wiþ my gossib duellyng in oure toun
                                
                                  God haue hir soule. hir name was Alisoun
                                
                                  Sche knew myn herte and my priuite
                                
                                  Bet þan oure parisch prest so mot I the /
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                                  To hir bywreyed I my counseil al
                                
                                  For had myn housbond pissed on a wal
                                
                                  Or don a þing þat schuld haue cost his lif
                                
                                  To hir and to anoþer worþy wyf
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                                  And to my neece which I loued wel
                                
                                  I wold haue told his counseil euery del
                                
                                  And so I did ful ofte god it woot
                                
                                  That made his face ofte reed and hoot
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                                  For verry schame. and blamyd himself þat he /
                                
                                  had told to me so gret a priuete
                                
                                  And so byfel þat oones in a lent
                                
                                  So ofte tyme to my gossib I went
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                                  For euer ȝit I loued to be gay
                                
                                  And for to walk in march aueril and may
                                
                                  From hous to here sondry talis
                                
                                  Þat Iankyn Clerk and my gossib dame alis
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                                  And I my self in to þe feldes went
                                
                                  Myn housbond was at londone al þat lent
                                
                                  I had þe bettir leysir for to pleye
                                
                                  And for to see and eek for to be seye
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                                  Of lusty folk. what wist I wher my grace
                                
                                  was schapen for to be or in what place
                                
                                  Therfore I made my visitaciouns
                                
                                  To vigiles and to processiouns
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                                  To prechings eek and to þis pilgrimages
                                
                                  To pleyes miracles and mariages
                                
                                  And wered vpon my scarlet gytes
                                
                                  Þese wormes þese moughtes ne þese mytes
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                                  Vpon my perel fretith hem neuer a deel
                                
                                  And wostow why. for þay were vsed wel
                                
                                  Now wol I telle forþ what happid me [folio 94a] 
                                
                                  I say þat in þe feldes walkid we

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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 209
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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