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

                                
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                                  Wommen ful trewe / ful goode and vertuous [folio 151a] 
                                
                                  Witnesse on hem / that dwelle in Cristes hous
                                
                                  With martirdom / they proued hir constaunce
                                
                                  The Romayn geestes / eek maken remembraunce
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                                  Of many a verray / trewe wyf also
                                
                                  But sire ne be nat wrooth / al be it so
                                
                                  Thogh þat he seyde / he foond no good womman
                                
                                  I pray yow / taak the sentence of the man
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                                  He mente thus / þat in souerayn bontee
                                
                                  Nys noon but god / but neither he ne she
                                
                                  ¶ Ey for verray god / that nys but oon
                                
                                  What make ye / so muche of Salomon
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                                  What thogh / he made a temple goddes hous
                                
                                  What thogh he were riche and glorious
                                
                                  So made he eek/ a temple / of false goddys
                                
                                  How myghte he do a thyng þat moore forbode is
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                                  Pardee / as faire / as ye his name emplastre
                                
                                  He was a lechour / and an ydolastre
                                
                                  And in his elde / he verray god forsook
                                
                                  And if god ne hadde / as seith the book
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                                  Yspared hym / for his fadres sake / he sholde
                                
                                  Haue lost his regne / rather than he wolde
                                
                                  I sette right noght of al the vileynye
                                
                                  That ye of wommen write / a Boterflye
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                                  I am a womman / nedes moot I speke
                                
                                  Or ellis swelle / til myn herte breke
                                
                                  ffor sithen he seyde / þat we been Iangleresses
                                
                                  As euere hool / I mote brouke my tresses
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                                  I shal nat spare / for no curteisye
                                
                                  To speke hym harm / þat wolde vs vileynye
                                
                                  ¶ Dame quod this Pluto / be no lenger wrooth
                                
                                  I yeue it vp / but sith I swoor myn ooth
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                                  That I wolde graunten hym / his sighte ayein
                                
                                  My word shal stonde / I warne yow certeyn
                                
                                  I am a kyng it sit me noght to lye
                                
                                  ¶ And I quod she / a queene of ffairye

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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 345
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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