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

                                
                                     [6-text p 345] 
                                  
                                  fful gilteles by goddes sweete pyne
                                
                                  ffor as an hors I couþe boþe byte and whyne
                                
                                  I couþe pleyne and I was in þe gilte
                                
                                  Or elles ofte tyme I hadde ben spilte
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  Who so þat first to mylle comþ ferst grynte
                                
                                  I pleyned first so was oure werre stynte
                                
                                  þey were ful glade to excusen hem ful blyue /
                                
                                  Of þing which þei agilte neuer here lyue
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                                  Of wenches wolde I beren hem on honde
                                
                                  Whan þat for sike þey might vnneþe stonde
                                
                                  yet tykeled I his herte for þat he
                                
                                  Wende I hadde of him so gret chiertee
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  I swore þat al my walkynge be night
                                
                                  Was for to aspye wenches þat he dighte [folio 109b] 
                                
                                  vnder þat colour hadde I many a myrþe
                                
                                  ffor alle such witte is ȝiue vs in oure birþe
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                                  Desceipte wepyng spynnyng god haþ ȝiue
                                
                                  To womman kyndely whil þat þei may lyue [¶ ffallere flere nere dedit deus in muliere] 
                                
                                  And þus of o þing I auaunte me
                                
                                  At þe ende I hadde þe beste in eche degre
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                                  By sleighte or force or by som maner þing
                                
                                  As by continuel murmur and grucching
                                
                                  Namely a bedde hadde þey meschaunce
                                
                                  Ther wolde I chide and do hem no plesaunce
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                                  I wolde no lenger in þe bedde abyde
                                
                                  If þat I felte his arm ouer my syde
                                
                                  Til he hadde made his raunsom vnto me
                                
                                  Thanne wolde I suffre him do his nycete
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                                  And þerfore euery man þis tale I telle
                                
                                  Wynne who so may al are for to selle
                                
                                  Wiþ empty hande men may non haukes lure
                                
                                  ffor wynnyng wolde I al his lust endure
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                                  And make me a feyned appetyt
                                
                                  And ȝit in bakon hadde I neuer delit/
                                
                                  That maked me þat euer I wolde him chyde
                                
                                  ffor þough þe pope hadde sete him besyde

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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 224
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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