[6-text p 525]
Than hys wyf were of hir/ trouþe false [[Sloane 1685]]
The · sorowe of Doregen he tolde hym alse
howe · loþe hir/ was to ben a wykked wyf
And þat she leuere þat day loste · hir lyf
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And þat hir/ trouþe she · swore þorough Innocence
Sche neuere erste herd speke of apparence
þat made me han of hir/ so grete pite
And riȝt as frely as he sent hir/ me
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As frely sent I hir/ to hym a-gayne
Thys ys alle and somme þere nys no more to sayne
Thys phylosofre answered leue broþer
Euere yche of/ you did gentilnesse to oþere
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þou arte a squyer/ and he ys a knyȝt
But god for-bede for hys blysfull myȝt
But ȝif a. Clerk couþe do a gentel dede
As wele as ony of you withouten drede
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Sir/ I relese þe þi þousand pounde
As þou riȝt nowe were cropen oute of grounde
Ne neuere or nowe hadest þou knowe me
ffor I wylle not taken a peny of þe
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ffor alle my craft and nouȝt for my travayle
þou haste y-payed wele for my vitayle
It ys y-nouȝe and fare wele and haue god day
And toke his hors and forth he gothe hys way
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Lordynges. þis question wylle I axe nowe
Whiche was þe most fre as þenkeþe you
Now telleþe me or þat I ferthere wende
I can no more my tale ys at an ende
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Here endithe þe Frankeleyns tale] [[The Doctor's Tale followed in the Cambridge MS: one leaf only, 302, is left.]]
