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

                                
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                                  And I was fourty ȝif I schal sey sooth
                                
                                  And ȝit I hadde alway a coltys toth
                                
                                  Gat-tothid I was & that be-cam me wel
                                
                                  I hadde the prente of seynt peterys sel
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                                  As help me god I was a lusty on
                                
                                  ffayr & ryche & frosch & wel be-gon
                                
                                  And trewely as myn husbondys toldyn me
                                
                                  I hadde the beste quoniam that myȝte be
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                                  ffor sertis I am al venerient [folio 219a] 
                                
                                  In felynge & myn herte is marcient
                                
                                  Venus me ȝaf myn lust myn licorousnesse
                                
                                  And mars ȝaf me myn hardy-nesse
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                                  Myn ascendent was taur & mars ther Inne
                                
                                  Allas allas that euere loue was synne
                                
                                  I folwede ay myn Inclynacyoun
                                
                                  By vertu of myn constolacioun
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                                  That made me that I coude nat withdrawe
                                
                                  Myn chambere of venus from a good felawe
                                
                                  ȝit haue I Martes mark vp-on myn face
                                
                                  And also in a-nothyr preue place
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                                  ffor god so wis be myn sauacyoun
                                
                                  I ne lewede neuere by non discrecyoun
                                
                                  But euere folwede myn apetit
                                
                                  Al were he schort or long or blak or whȝt
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                                  I tok no kep so þat he lykede mee
                                
                                  How pore ne ek o what degree
                                
                                  What schal I sey but at þe monethis ende
                                
                                  This Ioly clerk Iankyn that was so hynde
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                                  Hath wedede me with gret solempnetee
                                
                                  And to hym ȝaf I al that lond & fee
                                
                                  That euere was me ȝeuyn þere by-foore
                                
                                  But aftyrward me repentede sone therfore
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                                  He nolde suffere no thyng of myn lyst
                                
                                  But onys he smot me with hyse fyst
                                
                                  ffor I rente onys out of hyse bok a lef
                                
                                  That for the strok myn ere wex al def

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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 184
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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