The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And þus þe sweete clerk his tyme spente
                                
                                  After his freendes fyndyng and his rente
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                                  This Carpunter hadde wedded a newe wyf
                                
                                  Which þat he louede more þan his lyf
                                
                                  Of xviij. ȝeer sche was of age
                                
                                  Ialous he was and heeld hir narwe in cage
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                                  ffor sche was wylde and ȝong and he was old
                                
                                  And demed him self ben lik a Cokewold
                                
                                  he knew not Caton for his witte was rude
                                
                                  That bad men wedde his similitude
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                                  Men scholde wedde after here astat
                                
                                  ffor youþe and eelde is often in debat
                                
                                  But siþen þat he was fallen in the snare
                                
                                  He most endure as oþer folk his care
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                                  ffair was þis ȝonge wijf and þer wiþ al
                                
                                  As eny wesele hire body gent and smal
                                
                                  A ceynt sche wered barred al of self
                                
                                  A barmcloþ as whit as morne melk
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                                  Vpon hire lendes ful of many a goore
                                
                                  Whit was hir smok and brouded al bifore
                                
                                  And eek byhynde on hire coler aboute
                                
                                  Of kolblak silk wiþinne and eek wiþoute [folio 46a] 
                                
                                  The tapes of hir white voluper
                                
                                  Were of þe same suyte of hire coler
                                
                                  hire filet brood of silk and sitt ful hye
                                
                                  and sikerly sche hadde a likerous yhe
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                                  fful smal y-pulled were hire browes tuo
                                
                                  And þo were bent and blak as any slo
                                
                                  Sche was ful more blisful for to see/
                                
                                  Than is þe newe perionette tree
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                                  And softer þan þe wolle is of a weþer
                                
                                  And by hir gerdul hinge a purs of leþer
                                
                                  Tassed wiþ selk and perled wiþ latoun
                                
                                  In al þis world to seeken vp and doun
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                                  Ther is no man so wys þat couþe þenche
                                
                                  So gay a popelote or swich a wenche/

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 93
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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