The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Stibourne I was / as is a Leonesse
                                
                                  And of my tonge / a verray Iangleresse
                                
                                  And walke I wolde / as I had doon biforn
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous / al-though he had it sworn
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                                  ffor which / he often tymes wolde preche
                                
                                  And me / of olde Romayn geestes teche
                                
                                  How he symplicius Gallus / lefte his wyf [¶ Valerius. libro 6o. folio. 19o.] 
                                
                                  And hire forsok / for terme of al his lyf
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                                  Noght but for open-heueded / he hir say
                                
                                  Lokynge out at his dore / vpon a day
                                
                                  ¶ Another Romayn / tolde he me by name
                                
                                  That for his wyf / was at a someres game
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                                  With-outen his wityng he forsook hire eke
                                
                                  And thanne wolde he / vp-on his Bible seke
                                
                                  That ilke prouerbe / of Ecclesiaste
                                
                                  Where he comandeth / and forbedeth faste
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                                  Man shal nat suffre his wyf go roule aboute
                                
                                  Thanne wolde he seye right/ thus / with-outen doute
                                
                                  ¶ Who so / that buyldeth his hous / al of salwes [¶ Nota.] 
                                
                                  And priketh his blynde hors / ouer the falwes
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                                  ¶ And suffreth his wyf / to go seken halwes [folio 74a]  [¶ Ne des mulieri nequam veniam prodeundi ecclesiastici .25o. [verse 25-6]] 
                                
                                  Is worthy / to been hanged / on the galwes
                                
                                  But al for noght I sette noght an hawe
                                
                                  Of his prouerbes / nof his olde awe
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                                  Ne I wolde nat of hym corrected be
                                
                                  I hate hym / that my vices telleth me
                                
                                  And so doo mo / god woot of vs / than I
                                
                                  This made hym / with me wood al outrely
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                                  I nolde noght / forbere hym in no cas
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I seye yow sooth / by seint Thomas
                                
                                  Why þat I rente / out of his book a leef
                                
                                  ffor which / he smoot me so / þat I was deef
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                                  ¶ He hadde a book / þat gladly nyght and day
                                
                                  ffor his desport he wolde rede alway
                                
                                  He cleped it Valerie / and Theofraste
                                
                                  At which book/ he lough alwey ful faste

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 185
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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