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

                                
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                                  Wiþ my gossybb dwellyng in oure toun
                                
                                  God haue hire soule hir name was alisoun
                                
                                  Sche knew myn herte and al my priuyte /
                                
                                  Bettre þan oure parissche prest so mote I þee /
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                                  To hire bywreyed I my counseil al
                                
                                  ffor hadde myn housbonde pyssed on a wal
                                
                                  Or don a þing þat schulde haue cost his lyf
                                
                                  To hire and to anoþer worþy wyf
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                                  And to my neece which I loue wel
                                
                                  I wolde han told his counseill euerydell
                                
                                  And so I dede ful ofte god it woot
                                
                                  That made his face often reed and hoot
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                                  ffor verray schame and blamed himself for he
                                
                                  hadde told to me so gret a pryuyte [folio 111b] 
                                
                                  And so it felle þat ones in a lente
                                
                                  So ofte tyme vnto my gossib wente /
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                                  ffor euer ȝit I loued to be gay
                                
                                  And for to walke in march aueril and may
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous to herkne sondry tales
                                
                                  That Iankyn clerk and my gossibb dame alis
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                                  And I my self in to þe feldes wente
                                
                                  myn housbond was at london al þat lente
                                
                                  I hadde þe bettre leysir for to pleye
                                
                                  And for to see and eek for to be seye
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                                  Of lusty folk what wist I wher my grace
                                
                                  Was schapen for to be or in what place
                                
                                  þerfore made I my visitacions
                                
                                  To vigilies and to processions
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                                  To prechyng eek and to þis pilgrimages
                                
                                  To pleyes of myracles and of mariages
                                
                                  And wered vpon my gaye skarlet gytes
                                
                                  This wormes ne þise moþþes ne þise mytes
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                                  vppon my peril frete hem neuer a del
                                
                                  And wostow why for þey were vsed wel
                                
                                  ¶ Now wol I tellen forþ what happed me
                                
                                  I seye þat in þe feeldes walked we

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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 228
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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