The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And þus this swete clerk hese tyme he spente
                                
                                  Aftyr hese frendys fyndynge & hese rente
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                                  This carpenter hadde weddid newe a wyf
                                
                                  Whiche þat he louede more þan hese lyf
                                
                                  Of eightene ȝer sche was of age
                                
                                  Ielous he was & held here narwe in cage
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                                  ffor sche was wilde & ȝyng & he was old
                                
                                  And demede hym self / ben lyk a coukewold
                                
                                  He knew not catoun for hese wit was rude
                                
                                  That bad men schulde wedde here symylitude
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                                  Men schulde wedde aftyr here estat
                                
                                  ffor ȝoughte & elde ben oftyn at debat
                                
                                  But sythyn þat he was fallyn in the snare
                                
                                  He muste endure as oþere folk hese care
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                                  ffayr was þis ȝonge wif & þerwith al
                                
                                  As ony wesele here body gent & smal
                                
                                  A seynt sche werede þe seynt al of sylk
                                
                                  A barme cloth as whit as ony mylk
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                                  Vp on here lendis ful of manye a gore
                                
                                  Whit was here smok I-brouded al be-fore
                                
                                  And ek be-hyndyn on here coller aboute
                                
                                  Of col blak silk with-inne & ek with-oute
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                                  The tapes of here white voluper
                                
                                  Were of the same sute of here coller
                                
                                  Hyre filet brod of silk I-set ful hye
                                
                                  And sekyrly sche hadde a lycorous eye
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                                  fful smale I-pullede were hese browis to
                                
                                  And þo were bent & blake as is a slo
                                
                                  Sche was more blysful on to se
                                
                                  Than is the newe pere Ionete tre
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                                  And softere than is the wolle of a wedyr
                                
                                  And by here gerdil heng a purs of ledyr
                                
                                  Tassellid with sylk & perlit with latoun [folio 177a] 
                                
                                  In al this world to sekyn vp & doun
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                                  There is no man so wys that coude thynche
                                
                                  So gay a popelote or swych a wenche

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 93
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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