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

                                
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                                  They haten / that hir housbondes loueth ay
                                
                                  He seyde / a womman / cast hir shame away
                                
                                  Whan she cast of hir smok and forther mo [folio 67b] 
                                
                                  A fair womman / but she be chaast also
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                                  Is lyk a gold ryng in a sowes nose
                                
                                  Who wolde wene / or who wolde suppose
                                
                                  The wo / that in myn herte was and pyne
                                
                                  ¶ And whan I say / he wolde neuere fyne
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                                  To reden / on this cursed book al nyght
                                
                                  Al sodeynly / thre leues / haue I plyght
                                
                                  Out of his book right as he radde / and eke
                                
                                  I with my fist so took [him] on the cheke
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                                  That in oure fyr/ he fil bakward adown
                                
                                  And he vp stirte / as dooth a wood leoun
                                
                                  And with his fest/ he smoot me on the heed
                                
                                  That in the floor / I lay as I were deed
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                                  And whan he say / how stille þat I lay
                                
                                  He was agast and wolde haue fled his way
                                
                                  Til atte laste / out of my swowgh I brayde
                                
                                  O hastow slayn me / false theef I sayde
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                                  And for my land / thus hastow mordred me
                                
                                  Er I be deed / yet wol I kisse thee
                                
                                  ¶ And neer he cam / and kneled faire adown
                                
                                  And seyde / deere suster Alisoun
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                                  As help me god / I shal thee neuere smyte
                                
                                  That I haue doon / it is thy self to wyte
                                
                                  fforyeue it me / and that I thee biseke
                                
                                  And yet eft soones / I hitte hym on the cheke
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                                  And seyde theef/ thus muchel am I wreke
                                
                                  Now wol I dye / I may no lenger speke
                                
                                  ¶ But at the laste / with muchel care and wo
                                
                                  We fille acorded / by vs seluen two
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                                  He yaf me / al the brydel in myn hond
                                
                                  To han the gouernance / of hous and lond
                                
                                  And of his tonge / and his hond also
                                
                                  And made hym brenne his book anon right tho

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 151
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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