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

                                
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                                  wher þat hir housbond hyd him in a place [folio 96a] 
                                
                                  For which he had at thebes sory grace
                                
                                  Of lyma told he me and of lucye
                                
                                  Thay boþe made her housbondes for to dye /
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                                  That oon for loue · þat oþer was for hate
                                
                                  Lyma hir housbond on an euen late
                                
                                  Empoysond hath . for þat sche was his fo
                                
                                  Lucia licorous loued hir housbond so
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                                  For þat he schuld alway vpon hir þink
                                
                                  Sche ȝaf him such a maner loue-drink
                                
                                  That he was deed er it was by þe morwe
                                
                                  And þus algates housbondes had sorwe
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                                  Than told he me how oon latumyus
                                
                                  Compleigned vnto his felaw arrius
                                
                                  That in his gardyn growed such a tre
                                
                                  On which he sayde how þat his wyues þre /
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                                  Honged hem selfe / for herte despitous
                                
                                  O leue broþer . quod þis arrious
                                
                                  Ȝif me a plont of þilke blessid tre
                                
                                  And in my gardyn schal it plantid be
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                                  Of latter date of wyues haþ he red
                                
                                  That som han slayn her housbondes in her bed
                                
                                  And let her lecchour dighten al þe night
                                
                                  whil þat þe corps lay in þe flor vpright
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                                  And som han dryuen nayles in her brayn
                                
                                  whiles þay sleepe and þus þey han hem slayn
                                
                                  Som haue hem ȝiue poysoun in her drink
                                
                                  he spak more harm þan herte may byþynk
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                                  And þer wiþ al he knew mo prouerbes
                                
                                  Þan in þis world þer growen gres or herbes
                                
                                  Better is quod he thyn habitacioun
                                
                                  Be with a leoun or a foul dragoun
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                                  Than with a womman vsyng for to chyde
                                
                                  Better is quod he hihe in þe roof abyde
                                
                                  Than wiþ a wikked womman doun in a hous
                                
                                  Thay ben so wicked and so contrarious

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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 215
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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