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

                                
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                                  That he yow hadde / an hundred frankes payed
                                
                                  By redy tokene / and heeld hym yuele apayed
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                                  ffor þat I to hym spak of cheuyssance
                                
                                  Me semed so / as by his contenance
                                
                                  But nathelees / by god oure heuene kyng
                                
                                  I thoughte nat to axen hym no thyng
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                                  I prey thee wyf / as do namoore so
                                
                                  Telle me alwey / er that I fro thee go
                                
                                  If any dettour / hath in myn absence
                                
                                  Ypayed thee / lest thurgh thy necligence
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                                  I myghte hym axe / a thing that he hath payed
                                
                                  ¶ This wyf was nat afered nor affrayed
                                
                                  But boldely she seyde / and that anon
                                
                                  Marie / I deffie / the false Monk / daun Iohn
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                                  I kepe nat of hise tokenes / neuer a deel
                                
                                  He took me certeyn gold / that woot I wee
                                
                                  What yuel thedam / on his Monkes snowte
                                
                                  ffor god it woot I wende withouten doute
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                                  That he hadde yeue it me / bycause of yow
                                
                                  To doon ther-with / myn honour and my prow
                                
                                  ffor cosynage / and eek for beele cheere
                                
                                  That he hath had / ful ofte tymes heere
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                                  But sith I se / I stonde in this disioynt
                                
                                  I wol answere yow / shortly to the poynt
                                
                                  ¶ Ye han mo slakkere dettours / than am I
                                
                                  ffor I wol paye yow / wel and redily
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                                  ffor day to day / and if so be I faille
                                
                                  I am youre wyf score it vp-on my taille
                                
                                  And I shal paye / as soone as euer I may
                                
                                  ffor by my trouthe / I haue on myn array
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                                  And nat on wast bistowed euery deel
                                
                                  And for I haue / bistowed it so weel
                                
                                  ffor youre honour / for goddes sake I seye
                                
                                  As be nat wrooth / but lat vs laughe and pleye
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                                  Ye shal / my ioly body / haue to wedde
                                
                                  By god I wol nat paye yow but a bedde

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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 402
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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