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The wright's chaste wife : or "A fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her gave as for a precyous Johelle to hym a Rose garlond the whyche she affermyd wold never fade while she kept truly her wedlok." : a merry tale / by Adam of Cobsam from a ms. in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D. ; copied and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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The wright's chaste wife : or "A fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her gave as for a precyous Johelle to hym a Rose garlond the whyche she affermyd wold never fade while she kept truly her wedlok." : a merry tale / by Adam of Cobsam from a ms. in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D. ; copied and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Adam, of Cobsam, active approximately 1462.
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London :: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner,
1865 [i.e. 1869]
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"The wright's chaste wife : or "A fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her gave as for a precyous Johelle to hym a Rose garlond the whyche she affermyd wold never fade while she kept truly her wedlok." : a merry tale / by Adam of Cobsam from a ms. in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D. ; copied and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00054. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025.

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The Wright's Chaste Wife, OR "A Fable of a wrygħt that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre / the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her / gave as for a precyous Johełł to hym a Rose garlond / the whyche sche affermyd wold never fade while sche kept truly her wedlok."

A Merry Tale, by Adam of Cobsam, From a MS. in the Library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D.

COPIED AND EDITED BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL.

[Second Edition, revised, 1869.]

LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY, BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

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