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

                                
                                     [6-text p 365] 
                                  
                                  That vnder erthe is graue or lith aboue
                                
                                  But I þy wife . were and eek þy loue
                                
                                  My loue quod he . nay nay . my dampnacioun
                                
                                  Allas þat eny of my nacioun
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                                  Schuld euer so foule disparagid be
                                
                                  But/ al for nought . þe ende is þis þat he
                                
                                  Constreigned was . he needes most hir wedde
                                
                                  And takith his wyf and goþ wiþ hir to bedde
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                                  ¶ Now wolden som men say par aduenture
                                
                                  That for my necgligence I do no cure
                                
                                  To telle ȝow þe ioye and tharray
                                
                                  That at þat fest was maad þat ilke day
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                                  To which þing schortly answeren I schal
                                
                                  And say þer nas feste ne ioy at al
                                
                                  Ther nas but heuynes and mochil sorwe
                                
                                  For priuely he weddyd hir in a morwe
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                                  And alday hudde him . as doþ an oule
                                
                                  So wo was him his wyf loked so foule
                                
                                  Gret was þe wo . þe knight had in his þought
                                
                                  whan he was with his wyf on bedde brought
                                  Line 1084 
                                
                                  He walwith and he torneth to and fro [folio 100b] 
                                
                                  his olde wyf lay smylyng euer mo
                                
                                  And sayd o deere housbond benedicite [[MS. bndicite]] 
                                
                                  Fareth euery knight wiþ his wyf as ȝe /
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                                  Is þis þe lawe of king arthures hous
                                
                                  Is euery knight of his þus daungerous
                                
                                  I am ȝour oughne loue / and ȝour wyf
                                
                                  I am sche þat hath sauyd ȝour lyf
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                                  And certes ne dede I ȝow neuer vnright
                                
                                  why fare ȝe þus with me þe firste night
                                
                                  ȝe fare lik a man þat had left his wit/
                                
                                  what is my gult . for godes loue tel me it
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                                  And it schal be amendid if þat I may
                                
                                  Amendid quod þis knight allas nay nay
                                
                                  It wol nought ben amendid neuer mo
                                
                                  Thow art so loþly and so old also

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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 225
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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