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

                                
                                     [6-text p 344] 
                                  
                                  ffor who so wolde senge a cattis skyn
                                
                                  Thanne wolde þe cat dwelle in his In
                                
                                  And ȝif þe cattis skyn be slyk & gay
                                
                                  Sche wil not dwelle in house half a day
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                                  But forth sche wele er any day be dawyd
                                
                                  To schewe hire skyn & gon a catirwawid
                                
                                  This is to seye ȝif I be gay sere schrewe
                                
                                  I wele renne a-boute myn borel to schewe
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                                  Sire olde fol what eylyth þe to aspien
                                
                                  Thow þou preye argus with hise C eyen
                                
                                  To be myn warde cors as he can best
                                
                                  In feyth he schal nat kepe me but me lest
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                                  ȝit I coude make his berd so mote I the
                                
                                  þou seydist ek þat þere ben thyngis thre
                                
                                  Theche thyngis trobelyn al þis erþe
                                
                                  And þat no whit may endure þe ferþe
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                                  O leue sire schrewe Ihesu schorte þyn lyf
                                
                                  ȝit prechist þou & seyst þat an hateful wyf
                                
                                  I-rekenede is for on of þese myschauncis
                                
                                  Ben þere non oþere of þese recemblauncis
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                                  That ȝe may likene ȝoure parabele to
                                
                                  But ȝif a sely wif be on of þo
                                
                                  þou likkenyst womanys loue to helle
                                
                                  To barayne lond þere no watyr may dwelle
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                                  þou likenyst it also to wildefer
                                
                                  The more it brennyth þe more it hath desyr
                                
                                  To consumme euery þynk þat brent wele be
                                
                                  Thow seyst ryȝt as wermys consume a tre
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                                  Ryȝt so a wif distroyeþ hire husbonde
                                
                                  That knowyn þey þat ben to wyuys bonde
                                
                                  Lordyngis ryȝt þus as ȝe han vndyrstonde
                                
                                  Bar I stifly myn olde housbonde on honde
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                                  That þus þey seydyn in here dronkenes [folio 216a] 
                                
                                  And al was fals but þat I tok witnes
                                
                                  On Iankyn & on myn nece also
                                
                                  O lord þe peyne I dede hem & þe wo

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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 177
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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