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

                                
                                     [6-text p 355] 
                                  
                                  Where þat hyre husbonde hidde hym in a place
                                
                                  ffor whiche he hadde at thebes sory grace
                                
                                  Of lyma tolde he me & of lucye
                                
                                  Th[e]y bothe made here housbondis for to dye
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                                  That on for loue that oþer for hate
                                
                                  Lyma hire housbonde on an euyn late
                                
                                  Enpoysounede hath for þat sche was his fo
                                
                                  Lucya lykerous louede hyre housbonde so
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                                  That he schulde alwey on hire thynke
                                
                                  Sche ȝaf hym swich a manere loue drynke
                                
                                  That he was ded er it was by þe morwe
                                
                                  And þus algatys housbondis haddyn sorwe
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                                  Thanne tolde he me how on latymyus
                                
                                  Compleynede to his felawe Arryus
                                
                                  That in hyse gardyn growede swych a tre
                                
                                  On whiche he seyde þat his wyuys thre
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                                  Hangede hem self for herte despitous
                                
                                  O leue brothir quod this Arryus
                                
                                  ȝif me a plante of that blyssede tre
                                
                                  And in myn gardyn schal it plauntede be
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                                  Of lattere date of wyuys þanne he radde [folio 221a] 
                                
                                  That some han slayn here housbondis in here bedde
                                
                                  And leet hire lectour dyȝte hire al þe nyȝt
                                
                                  Whils þat þe cors lay in þe flor vp-ryȝt
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                                  And some han dryue a nayl in here brayn
                                
                                  Whils þat þey slepte & þus þey han hem slayn
                                
                                  Some han ȝeue hem poysoun in here drynk
                                
                                  He spak more harm than herte may be-thynk
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                                  And þer-with-al he knew mo prouerbis
                                
                                  Than in this world þere growe gres or erbis
                                
                                  Bet is quod he þat thyn habitacioun
                                
                                  Be with a lyoun or a foul dragoun
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                                  Than with a waman vsynge for to chyde
                                
                                  Betere is quod he hye in þe rof a-byde
                                
                                  Than with a wekede woman doun in an hous
                                
                                  They ben so wekke & so contraryous

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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 188
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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