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

                                
                                     [6-text p 354] 
                                  
                                  Than sit he doun and writ in his dotage
                                
                                  That wommen can nought kepe here mariage
                                
                                  But now to purpos why I tolde þe
                                
                                  That I was beten for a leef par de
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                                  vpon a night Iankyn þat was oure sire
                                
                                  Rad on his book as he sat by þe fyre
                                
                                  Of Eua first þat for hir wikkidnes
                                
                                  was al mankynde brought to wrecchednes
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                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                  Tho rad he me how Sampson left his heris
                                
                                  Slepyng his lemman kut it wiþ hir scheris
                                
                                  Thurgh which tresoun lost he boþe his yen
                                
                                  Tho rad he me if þat I schal not lyen
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                                  Of Ercules and of his deianyre
                                
                                  That caused him to sette himself on fuyre
                                
                                  No þing forȝat he þe care and wo
                                
                                  Þat Socrates had wiþ his wyues tuo
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                                  How exantipa cast pisse vpon his heed
                                
                                  Þis seely man sat stille as he were deed
                                
                                  he wyped his heed no more durst he sayn
                                
                                  But er þunder stynte þer comeþ rayn
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                                  Of phasipha þat was þe queen Creete.
                                
                                  For schrewednes him þought þe tale sweete.
                                
                                  Fy spek no more it is a grisly þing
                                
                                  For her horribil lust and her likyng
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                                  Of Clydemystra for hir leccherie
                                
                                  That falsly made hir housbond for to dye
                                
                                  he rad it with ful good deuocioun
                                
                                  he told me eek for what occasioun
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                                  Amphiores at Thebes left his lif
                                
                                  Myn housbond had a legend of his lyf
                                
                                  Exiphilem þat for an ouche of gold
                                
                                  haþ prively vnto þe Grekes told

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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 214
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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