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

                                
                                     [6-text p 342] 
                                  
                                  Mote þyn wekede neke be to-broke
                                
                                  þou seyst þat droppynge housis & ek smoke
                                
                                  And chydyng wyf makyth men to fle
                                
                                  Out of here owene hous a benedicite
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                                  What eylyth swich an old man to chyde
                                
                                  þou seyst þat we wyuis wele oure vicis hyde
                                
                                  Til we ben fast & þanne we wele hem schewe
                                
                                  Wel may þat ben a prouerbe of a schrewe
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                                  þou seyst þat oxsyn Assis hors & houndys
                                
                                  þey ben a-sayed at dyuerse stoundys
                                
                                  Basenys lauourys er þan men hem beye
                                
                                  sponys & stolis & alle swich husbondrye
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                                  And also cloþis pottys & a-ray
                                
                                  But folk of wyuys makyn non a-say
                                
                                  Til þey ben weddit olde dotard schrewe
                                
                                  Thanne seyst þou we wele oure vicis schewe
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                                  Thou seyst also þat it displeseþ me
                                
                                  But ȝif þat þou wilt preyse myn beute
                                
                                  And but þou poure alwey in myn face
                                
                                  And clepe me fayre dame in euery place
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                                  And but þou make a feste on þat day
                                
                                  þat I was born & make me frosch & gay
                                
                                  And but þou do to myn noryce honour
                                
                                  And to myn chaumberere with-inne myn bour
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                                  And to mynne faderys folkys & mynne alyes
                                
                                  Thus seyst þou olde barel ful of lyis
                                
                                  And ȝit of oure apprentys Iankyn
                                
                                  ffor his scrip here schynynge as gold fyn
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                                  And for he squyeryth me vp & doun [folio 215a] 
                                
                                  ȝit hast þou cauȝt fals suspecioun
                                
                                  I nyl hym not þow [þou] were ded to morwe
                                
                                  But telle me whi hydistow with sorwe
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                                  The keyes of myn cheste al day from me
                                
                                  It is myn good as wel as þyn parde
                                
                                  What wenyst þou to make an ydiot of oure dame
                                
                                  Now by þat lord þat callede is seynt Iame

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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 175
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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