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

                                
                                     [6-text p 340] 
                                  
                                  Me nedede not do lengere diligence
                                
                                  To wynne hire loue & don hire reuerence
                                
                                  They louede me so wel by god a-boue
                                
                                  That I ne told no deynte of here loue
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                                  As wys woman wele sette hire euere in on
                                
                                  To gete hire loue þere as sche hath non
                                
                                  But sythe I haue hem holy in myn hond
                                
                                  And sithe þey han me ȝeuyn al here lond
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                                  What schulde I take hed hem for to plese
                                
                                  But ȝif it were for myn profyt & myn ese
                                
                                  I sette hem so a-werke be myn fey
                                
                                  That manye a nyȝt þey sunge weyleawey
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                                  The bakon was nat fet for hem I trowe
                                
                                  That some men han in exces at dunmowe
                                
                                  I gouernede hem so wel aftyr my lawe
                                
                                  That eche of hem was blysful & ful fawe
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                                  To brynge me gay þyng from þe feyre
                                
                                  They were ful glad whan I spak tyl hem fayre
                                
                                  ffor god it wot I schid hem spitously
                                
                                  Now herkenyth how I bar me properly
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                                  ȝe wise wyuys þat kunne vndyr-stonde
                                
                                  Thus schul ȝe speke & bere hem wrong on honde
                                
                                  ffor half so boldely can þere no man
                                
                                  Swere & lye as can a woman
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                                  I seye it nat be wyuys þat been wyse [folio 214a] 
                                
                                  But ȝif it be whan þey hym mysavise
                                
                                  A wis wif ȝif þat sche can hire good
                                
                                  Schal bere hym on hande þe cou is wod
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                                  And take witnesse of hire owene mayde
                                
                                  Of hire asent but herkenyth how I seyde
                                
                                  Syre olde caynard is þis þyn aray
                                
                                  Whi is myn neyheborys wif so gay
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                                  Sche is honourede euere al þere sche goth
                                
                                  I sitte at hom & haue no thryfty cloth
                                
                                  What dost þou at myn neyhebouris hous
                                
                                  Is sche so fayr & þow so amerous

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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 173
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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