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

                                
                                     [6-text p 369] 
                                  
                                  were in no book ȝe gentils of honour
                                
                                  Sayn þat men schuld an old wight doon fauour
                                
                                  And clepe him fader for ȝour gentilesse
                                
                                  And certes I schal fynden as I gesse
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                                  Than drede ȝou nought to ben a cokewold
                                
                                  Now þer þat ȝe sayn I am foul and old
                                
                                  For filthe and elde also mot I the
                                
                                  Ben grete wardeyns vpon chastite /
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                                  But natheles sith I knowe ȝour delyt
                                
                                  I schal fulfille ȝoure worldly appetyt
                                
                                  Chese now quod sche oon of þese þinges tweye
                                
                                  To haue me foul and old til þat I deye
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                                  And be to ȝow a trewe humble wyf
                                
                                  And neuer ȝow displease in al my lyf
                                
                                  Or elles ȝe wol haue me ȝong and fair
                                
                                  And take ȝour auenture of þe repair
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                                  Þat schal be to ȝour hous by cause of me
                                
                                  Or in som oþer place may wel be
                                
                                  Now chese ȝour seluen whethir þat ȝow likith
                                
                                  This knight auysith him and sore sikith
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                                  But atte last he sayd in þis manere
                                
                                  My lady and my loue . and my wif so deere
                                
                                  I putte me in ȝour wyse gouernaunce
                                
                                  Chesith ȝour self which may be most pleasaunce
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                                  And most honour to ȝow and me also
                                
                                  I do no fors þe wheþer of þe tuo
                                
                                  For as ȝow likith it suffisith me
                                
                                  Than haue I gete of ȝow þe maystry quod sche /
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                                  Sith I may gouern and chese as me list/ [folio 102b] 
                                
                                  Ȝe certis wyf quod he I hold it best
                                
                                  kys me quod sche we ben no lenger wroþe
                                
                                  For by my trouþe . I wol be to ȝow boþe
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                                  This is to say ȝe boþe fair and good
                                
                                  I pray to god þat I mot sterue wood
                                
                                  But/ I be to ȝow also good and trewe
                                
                                  As euer was wyf siþþen þe world was newe

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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 229
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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