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

                                
                                     [6-text p 340] 
                                  
                                  me nedede nought / do lenger diligence [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  to wynne here love / and do hem reuerence
                                
                                  they loued me so wel / bi god above [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 85b] 
                                
                                  that I ne tolde no deynte / of here love
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                                  a wise woman wol besy hir / euere in oon
                                
                                  to gete hir love / ye there as she hath noon
                                
                                  but sith I hadde hem / holly in myn honde
                                
                                  and that thei hadde / yeve me al here londe
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                                  what shulde I take kepe hem for to please
                                
                                  but if it were my profyte / and myn ease
                                
                                  I sette hem so a worke / bi my fay
                                
                                  that many a night / thei songen welaway
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                                  the Bacoun was not fette for hem I trowe] [[Arch. Seld. B. 14 ex|tract stops]] 
                                
                                  That some men haue in Essexe at Dunmowe [folio 107a]  [for 102] 
                                
                                  I gouerned hem so wel after my lawe
                                
                                  That iche of hem ful blisful was and fawe /
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                                  To bringe me gay þinges fro þe feyre
                                
                                  They were ful glad whan I spak to hem faire [[This line is by another hand.]] 
                                
                                  ffor god it woot I chidde hem spytously
                                
                                  Now herkneþ how I bar me proprely
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                                  ye wyse wyues þat can vnderstande
                                
                                  Thus schulde ye speke and bere hem wrong on hande
                                
                                  ffor half so boldely þer can no man
                                
                                  Swere and lye as a womman can
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                                  I seye not þis by wyues þat ben wise /
                                
                                  But it be whan þat þey hem mysavyse /
                                
                                  A wise wijf schal if þat sche can hire good
                                
                                  Bere him on hond þat þe kow is wood
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                                  And take witnesse of hir owne mayde /
                                
                                  Of hire assent but herkeþ how I sayde /
                                
                                  Sire olde kaynard is þis þin array
                                
                                  Why is my neyheboures wijf so gay
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                                  Sche is honoured ouer al wher sche goþ
                                
                                  I sitte at hom I haue no þrifty cloþ
                                
                                  What dostow at my neyhebores hous
                                
                                  Is sche so fair art þou so amerous

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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 219
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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