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

                                  
                                       [6-text p 417] 
                                    
                                    There nas discord rancure ne heuynesse
                                  
                                    In al þat lond þat sche ne coude a-pese
                                  
                                    And wysely brynge hem in reste & ese
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                                    Thow þat hire husbonde / absent were a-non
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                                    ȝif gentyl men or oþere of hire cuntre
                                  
                                    Were wroth sche wolde / brynge hem at oon
                                  
                                    So wyse & rype wordis hadde she
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                                    And Iugementis of so gret equite
                                  
                                    þat sche from heuene sent as men wende
                                  
                                    Puple to saue & oþere men tamende
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                                    Not longe tyme aftyr þat þis gresylde
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                                    Was I-weddit sche a doughtyr hath I-bore
                                  
                                    Al hadde sche leuere a born a knaue chyld
                                  
                                    Glad was þe markis & þe folk þerfore
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                                    ffor thow a mayde chyld cam al by-fore
                                  
                                    Sche may vn-to a knauechild a-teyne
                                  
                                    By liklyhed syn sche nys nat bareyne
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[PART III.]

                                    
                                      Ther fel as it bi-fel tymys mo
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                                      Whan þat þis child hath soukede but a throwe
                                    
                                      This markis in his herte longith soo
                                    
                                      To tempte his wyf hire sadnesse for to knowe
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                                      That he ne myȝte out of his herte throwe
                                    
                                      This meruelious desyr his wyf tasayee
                                    
                                      Nedles god wot he thouȝte hyre for taffraye
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                                      He hadde a-sayed hire ryȝt I-now be-fore
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                                      And fond hire eeuere good / what neded it
                                    
                                      Hire for to tempte alwey more & more
                                    
                                      Thow sum men preyse it for a subtil wit
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                                      But as for me I seye þat yuele it sit
                                    
                                      Tassaye a wyf / whan þat it is noon nede
                                    
                                      And put hire in anguys & in drede

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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 249
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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