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

                                
                                     [6-text p 350] 
                                  
                                  Til trewely we hadde such dalyance
                                
                                  þis clerk and I þat of my purueiaunce
                                
                                  I spak to him and seyde how þat he
                                
                                  If I were wydow schulde wedde me
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                                  ffor certeynly I seye for no bobaunce /
                                
                                  þat was I neuer ȝit wiþoute purueance
                                
                                  Of mariage ne of oþer þinges eeke
                                
                                  I holde a mouses witte nat worþ a leek
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                                  þat haþ but oon hole for to stirten to
                                
                                  And if þat faile þan is al y-do
                                
                                  [I bar him on honde / he had enchaunted me [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14. No other Oxford MS has these lines.—G. Parker.]] 
                                
                                  my dame taughte me / that subtilte
                                
                                  and eke I seide / I mette of him al night
                                
                                  he wolde haue shamed me / as I lay vpright
                                
                                  and al my bed was ful / of verry blood
                                
                                  but yit I hope / that ye shul do me good
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                                  for blood bitokeneth gold / as me was taughte
                                
                                  and al was fals / for I dremed right naughte
                                
                                  but as I folwed ay / my dames lore
                                
                                  als wel of that / as of other thinges more] [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14. extract stops]] 
                                
                                  But now sire lat me see what I schal seyn
                                
                                  A ha. by god I haue my tale agayn
                                
                                  Whan þat my ferþe housbonde was on bere
                                
                                  I wepe algate and made sory chere [folio 112a]  [for 107] 
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                                  As wyues mooten for it is vsage /
                                
                                  And with my keuercheeff couered my visage
                                
                                  But for þat I was purueyed of a make /
                                
                                  I weep but smale and þat I vndertake
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                                  To chirche was myn housbond y-born on morwe
                                
                                  With neghebours þat for him made sorwe
                                
                                  And Iankyn oure clerk was on of þo
                                
                                  As help me god whan þat I seih him go
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                                  After þe beere me þought he hadde a paire
                                
                                  Of legges and of feet so cleene and faire
                                
                                  That al myn herte I yaf vnto his holde
                                
                                  he was I trowe twenty wynter olde

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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 229
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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