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

                                
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                                  And wel ye woot þat wommen naturelly
                                
                                  Desiren thynges sixe / as wel as I
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                                  They wolde / that hir housbondes sholde be
                                
                                  Hardy and wise / and riche and ther-to free
                                
                                  And buxom vn to his wyf and fressh abedde
                                
                                  But by that ilke lord / that for vs bledde
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                                  ffor his honour / my self for to arraye
                                
                                  A sonday next I moste nedes paye
                                
                                  An hundred frankes / or ellis I am lorn
                                
                                  Yet were me leuere / that I were vnborn
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                                  Than me were doon / a sclaundre or vileynye
                                
                                  And if myn housbonde / eek it myghte espye
                                
                                  I nere but lost and therfore I yow preye
                                
                                  Lene me this somme / or ellis moot I deye
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                                  Daun Iohn I seye / lene me thise hundred frankes [folio 149b] 
                                
                                  Pardee / I wol nat faille yow my thankes
                                
                                  If that yow list to doon that I yow praye
                                
                                  ffor at a certeyn day / I wol yow paye
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                                  And doon to yow / what plesance and seruice
                                
                                  That I may doon / right as yow list deuise
                                
                                  And but I do / god take on me vengeance
                                
                                  As foul / as euere hadde Genylon of ffrance
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                                  ¶ This gentil Monk / answerde in this manere
                                
                                  Now trewely / myn owene lady deere
                                
                                  I haue quod he / on yow so greet a routhe
                                
                                  That I yow swere / and plighte yow my trouthe
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                                  That whan youre housbonde / is to fflaundres fare
                                
                                  I wol delyuere yow / out of this care
                                
                                  ffor I wol brynge yow / an hundred frankes
                                
                                  And with that word / he caughte hire by the flankes
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                                  And hire embraceth harde / and kiste hire ofte
                                
                                  Gooth now youre wey quod he / al stille and softe
                                
                                  And lat us dyne / as soone as þat ye may
                                
                                  ffor by my chilyndre / it is pryme of day
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                                  Gooth now / and beeth as trewe as I shal be
                                
                                  ¶ Now elles / god forbede sire quod she

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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 396
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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