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

                                
                                     [6-text p 342] 
                                  
                                  Mote þy wicked necke be to-broke
                                
                                  þou seist þat droppyng houses and eek smoke
                                
                                  And chydyng wyues maken men to fle
                                
                                  Out of here owne houses a benedicite
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                                  What eyleþ swich an olde man for to chyde
                                
                                  Thou seist we wyues wille oure vices hyde
                                
                                  Til we be faste and þanne we wille hem schewe
                                
                                  Wel may þis be a prouerbe of a schrewe
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                                  Thou seist þat Oxen assen hors and houndes
                                
                                  They ben assayed at diuerse stoundes
                                
                                  Bacynes lauours or þat men hem bye
                                
                                  Spoones stooles and swich housbondrye
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                                  And so ben cloþes pottes and oþer arrayes
                                
                                  But of wommen aren maked non assayes [folio 108a]  [for 103] 
                                
                                  Til þei ben wedded olde dotard schrewe
                                
                                  And seist how þanne we wil oure vices schewe
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                                  Thou seist also þat it displeses me
                                
                                  But if þou wille preyse my beaute
                                
                                  And but þou poure alwey vpon my face
                                
                                  And clepe me faire dame in euery place
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                                  And but þou make a feste on þat ilke day
                                
                                  That I was born and make me freische and gay
                                
                                  And but þou do to my norys honour
                                
                                  And to my chambre wiþinne my bour
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                                  And to my fadres folk and his allyes
                                
                                  Thus seist þou olde barel ful of lyes
                                
                                  And yit of oure apprentys Iankyn
                                
                                  ffor his crispe heer schynynge so gold fyn
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                                  And for he squyeres me boþe vp and doun
                                
                                  yet hastow þought and fals suspecion
                                
                                  I wil him nought þough þou were deed to morwe
                                
                                  But telle me þis why hydest þou with sorwe
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                                  Thy keyes of þi cheste away fro me /
                                
                                  It is my good as wel as þin parde
                                
                                  What wenestow make an ydyot of oure dame /
                                
                                  Now by þat lord þat called is seint Iame

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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 221
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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