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

                                
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                                  wommen ful trewe . ful good and vertuous
                                
                                  witnesse on hem þat duelle in cristes hous
                                
                                  with martirdom þay proued her constaunce
                                
                                  The romayn gestes eek make remembraunce
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                                  Of many a verray trewe wyf also ·
                                
                                  But sire be nought wrath al be it so
                                
                                  Though þat he sayd he fond no good womman
                                
                                  I pray ȝow tak þe sentens of þe man
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                                  he mente þus þat in souereign bounte
                                
                                  Nis noon but god þat sit in trinite
                                
                                  Ey for verrey god þat nys but oon
                                
                                  what make ȝe so moche of Salamon
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                                  what þough he made a temple goddes hous
                                
                                  what þough he were riche and glorious
                                
                                  So made he eek a temple of fals godis
                                
                                  How might he do a þing þat more forbod is
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                                  Par de als fair as ȝe his name emplastre
                                
                                  he was a lecchour and an ydolastre
                                
                                  And in his eelde he verraily god forsook
                                
                                  And if god ne had as saiþ þe book
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                                  I-spared him for his fadres sake he scholde
                                
                                  Haue left his regne raþer þan he wolde [folio 147a] 
                                
                                  I sette right nought of þe vilonye
                                
                                  That ȝe of wommen write a boterflie
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                                  I am a womman needes most I speke
                                
                                  Or elles swelle til myn herte breke
                                
                                  For syn sche sayd þat we ben iangleresses
                                
                                  As euer hool I moote brouke my tresses
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                                  I schal not spare for no curtesye /
                                
                                  To speke him harm þat wold vs vilonye
                                
                                  Dame quod þis pluto be no lenger wroth
                                
                                  I ȝiue it vp but/ sith I swere myn oth
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                                  That I wil graunte him his sight agein
                                
                                  My word schal stonde I warne ȝow certeyn
                                
                                  I am a kyng it sit me nought to lye
                                
                                  And I quod sche a queen of faierie

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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 331
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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