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

                                
                                     [6-text p 341] 
                                  
                                  What roune ȝe wiþ oure mayde benedicite
                                
                                  Sire olde lechour let þy iapes be /
                                
                                  And if I haue a gossibb or a freende
                                
                                  Wiþoute gilte ȝe chide as a feende
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                                  If þat I walke or pleye vnto his hous
                                
                                  þou comest home as drunken as a mous
                                
                                  And prechest on þi benche wiþ euel preef
                                
                                  þou seist to me it is a gret meschief
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                                  To wedde a pouer womman for costage
                                
                                  And if þat sche be riche of gret parage
                                
                                  þanne seistow þat it is a tormentrie /
                                
                                  To suffre hire pryde and hire malencolie /
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                                  And if þat sche be fair þou verray knaue /
                                
                                  Thow seist þat euery holour wol hir haue / [folio 107b] 
                                
                                  Sche may no while in chastite abyde
                                
                                  That is assayed vppon eche syde
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                                  Thou seist some folk desire vs for richesse
                                
                                  Some for oure schapp and some for oure fayrnesse
                                
                                  And some for sche can oþer synge or daunce
                                
                                  þus saistow wernard god ȝiue þe meschance
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                                  Some for here hondes and here armes smale
                                
                                  Thus goþ al to þe deuel by þy tale/
                                
                                  þou seist men may not kepe a castel walle
                                
                                  It may so longe assailed ben ouer alle /
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                                  And if þat sche be foule þou seist þat sche
                                
                                  Coueiteþ euery man þat sche may see
                                
                                  ffor as a spaynel sche wol on him lepe
                                
                                  Til þat sche fynde som man þat wol hir chepe
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                                  Ne non so grey goos goþ þer in þe lake
                                
                                  As seist þou þat wol be wiþouten make
                                
                                  And seist it is an hard þing for to weelde
                                
                                  A wight þat noman wille his þankes helde
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                                  Thus seistow lorel whan þou gost to bedde
                                
                                  And þat no wys man needeþ for to wedde
                                
                                  And noman þat entendiþ to þe heuene
                                
                                  Wiþ wilde þunder dent and fyre leuene /

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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 220
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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