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

[6-text p 443] [Sloane 1685 folio 87]

                                  
                                    [Whilome þere was dwellynge in Lumbardye
                                  
                                    A worþi knyȝt þat borne was at pavye
                                  
                                    In whiche he lyued in grete prosperite
                                  
                                    And sixty ȝere a wyfles man was he
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                                    And folowyd ay hys bodyly delyte
                                  
                                    On womman þere as was hys appetyte
                                  
                                    As don þese foules þat ben seculers
                                  
                                    And whan þat he was paste sixty ȝeres
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                                    Were hit for holynesse or for doteage
                                  
                                    I can not sey but suche a grete corage
                                  
                                    hade þis knyȝt to be a weddid man
                                  
                                    þat day and nyȝt he dothe all þat he can
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                                    To aspye where þat he wedded myȝt be
                                  
                                    Praynge oure lorde to graunten hym þat he
                                  
                                    Myȝt onys knowe þat blessefulle lyf
                                  
                                    That ys bytwext an husbonde & his wyf
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                                    And for to leuen vnder þat holy bonde
                                  
                                    With first god man to womman bande
                                  
                                    Non other lyf seyde he ys worthe a bene
                                  
                                    For wedlok ys so esy & so clene] [[Sloane 1685 extract ends]] 
                                  
                                    That in this world it is a paradys [Camb. Gg. 4. 27]  [folio 261a] 
                                  
                                    Thus seyde this olde knyght þat was so wys
                                  
                                    And serteynly as soth as god Is kyng
                                  
                                    To take a wyf it is a glorious thyng
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                                    And nemely whan a man is old & hore
                                  
                                    Thanne is a wyf the freut of his tresore
                                  
                                    Thanne schulde he take a ȝong wyf & a fayr
                                  
                                    On whiche he myȝte engendere & been eyr

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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 275
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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