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

                                
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                                  Til trewely we had such daliaunce
                                
                                  This Clerk and I þat of my puruyaunce
                                
                                  I spak to him and sayde how þat he
                                
                                  If I were wydow schulde wedde me
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                                  For certeynly I say for no bobaunce
                                
                                  Ȝit was I neuer wiþouten purueyaunce
                                
                                  Of mariage ne of no þinges eeke
                                
                                  I hold a mouses hert not worþ a leek
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                                  That haþ but oon hole to sterte to
                                
                                  And if þat faile þan is al I-do
                                
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                                  But now sir let me se what I schal sayn
                                
                                  A ha by god I haue my tale agayn
                                
                                  ¶ whan þat my fourþe housbond was on bere
                                
                                  I wept algate and made a sory cheere
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                                  As wyues mooten for it is vsage
                                
                                  And with my kerchief couered my visage
                                
                                  But for þat I was purueyed of a make /
                                
                                  I wept but smal and þat I vndertake
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                                  To chirche was myn housbond brought on morwe
                                
                                  with neighebors þat for him made sorwe
                                
                                  And Iankyn oure clerk was oon of þo
                                
                                  As help me god whan þat I saugh him go
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                                  After þe beere me þought he had a paire
                                
                                  Of legges and of feet so clene and faire
                                
                                  That al myn hert I ȝaf vnto his hold
                                
                                  He was I trowe twenty wynter old

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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 210
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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