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

                                
                                     [6-text p 179] 
                                  
                                  þat he hade you an hundred frankes payde [[Sloane MS 1685]] 
                                
                                  Be redy token · and he helde hym euel y-payde
                                  Line 1580 
                                
                                  ffor þat I to hym spake of Cheuesaunce
                                
                                  Me semyd so as by hys contenaunce
                                
                                  But nathelees be god þat ys heuen kynge
                                
                                  I þouȝte nouȝt to axe of hym no thynge
                                  Line 1584 
                                
                                  I pray þe wyf ne do no more soo.
                                
                                  Telle me alle way or þat I fro þe goo
                                
                                  Ȝeue eny detoure hathe in myn absence
                                
                                  I-payede þe laste þoroue þi necligence [Sloane MS 1685 folio 197b] 
                                
                                  I myȝt hym axe as thynge þat he hade payde
                                
                                  Thys wyf was not aferde nor afrayde
                                
                                  But boldely she sayd and þat a-none
                                
                                  Mare I defye þat false Monke Daūn Iohn
                                  Line 1592 
                                
                                  I kepe not of hys tokens neuere a dele
                                
                                  He toke me certayne golde I woote hit wele
                                
                                  What euel þedom of hys monke snowet
                                
                                  ffor god it woote I wende withoute doute
                                  Line 1596 
                                
                                  þat he hade yeue it me be cause of you
                                
                                  To done þere-with myne honoure & my prowe
                                
                                  ffor cosynage and eke for beel chere
                                
                                  þat he hath hade full ofte tyme here
                                  Line 1600 
                                
                                  But siþen I see I stonde in suche disioynt
                                
                                  I wylle answere you shortly to þe poynt
                                
                                  Ȝe haue mo slacker dettours þan am I
                                
                                  ffor I wille pay you wele and redely
                                  Line 1604 
                                
                                  ffro day to day and if so be þat I fayle
                                
                                  I am youre wyf score it on my tayle
                                
                                  And I shalle pay as sone as euere I may
                                
                                  ffor be myn trouþe I haue on myn array
                                  Line 1608 
                                
                                  And not in waste bestowed euery dele
                                
                                  And for I haue bestoyed it so wele
                                
                                  To youre honour for goddes sake y say
                                
                                  As be not wrothe bot let vs jape & play
                                  Line 1612 
                                
                                  Ȝe shalle my Ioly body haue to wedde
                                
                                  Be god I nelle not pay you but a bed

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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 397
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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