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

                                
                                     [6-text p 455] 
                                  
                                  Dispaire ȝow nought but haue in ȝoure memorie
                                
                                  Paraduenture she may be ȝour purgatorie
                                
                                  Sche may be goddes mene and goddes whippe [nota] 
                                
                                  Than schal ȝour soule vp to heuen skippe
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                                  Swyfter þan doþ an arwe out of a bowe
                                
                                  I hope to god her after ȝe shuln knowe
                                
                                  That þer nys noon so gret felicite
                                
                                  In mariage ne neuermor schal be
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                                  Þat ȝou schal lette of ȝour sauacioun
                                
                                  So þat ȝe use as skile is and resoun
                                
                                  The lustes of ȝour wyf attemperely
                                
                                  And þat ȝe please hir not to amorously
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                                  And þat ȝe kepe ȝow eek from oþer synne
                                
                                  My tale is doon. for my witt is þynne
                                
                                  Beþ not agast her of my broþer deere /
                                
                                  But let vs waden out of þis matiere
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                                  The wif of Bathe if ȝe han vnderstonde
                                
                                  Of mariage which ȝe han now on honde
                                
                                  Declared hath ful wel in litel space
                                
                                  Fareth now wel god haue ȝow in his grace
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                                  And with þat word þis Iustinus and his broþer
                                
                                  Han tak her leue and ech of hem of oþer
                                
                                  And whan þay saugh þat i most needis be
                                
                                  Thay wroughten so by sleight and wys trete
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                                  That sche þis mayden which þat/ Mayus hight
                                
                                  As hastily as euer sche might [folio 139a] 
                                
                                  Schal weddid be vnto þis Ianuarie
                                
                                  I trow it were to longe ȝow to tarie
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                                  If I ȝow tolde of euery scrit and bond
                                
                                  By which þat sche was feoffed in his lond
                                
                                  Or for to herken of hir riche array
                                
                                  But finally y-comen is þat day
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                                  That to þe chirche boþe ben þay went
                                
                                  For to receyue þe holy sacrement
                                
                                  Forth comth þe preost with stoole about his necke
                                
                                  And bad hir be lik Sarra and Rebecke

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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 314
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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