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 Line 434
Thow þat hire husbonde / absent were a-non Line 435 ȝif gentyl men or oþere of hire cuntre Were wroth sche wolde / brynge hem at oon So wyse & rype wordis hadde she Line 438 And Iugementis of so gret equite þat sche from heuene sent as men wende Puple to saue & oþere men tamende Line 441
Not longe tyme aftyr þat þis gresylde Line 442 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 Line 445 ffor thow a mayde chyld cam al by-fore Sche may vn-to a knauechild a-teyne By liklyhed syn sche nys nat bareyne Line 448
[PART III.]
Ther fel as it bi-fel tymys mo Line 449 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 Line 452 That he ne myȝte out of his herte throwe This meruelious desyr his wyf tasayee Nedles god wot he thouȝte hyre for taffraye Line 455
He hadde a-sayed hire ryȝt I-now be-fore Line 456 And fond hire eeuere good / what neded it Hire for to tempte alwey more & more Thow sum men preyse it for a subtil wit Line 459 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 Line 462
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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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