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

                                
                                     [6-text p 351] 
                                  
                                  And I was fourty if I schal seye soþ
                                
                                  But yet I hadde alwey a coltes toþ
                                
                                  Gat toþed I was and þat bycam me wel
                                
                                  I hadde þe printe of seint venus sel
                                  Line 604 
                                
                                  As help me god I was a lusty oon
                                
                                  And fair and riche and ȝong and wel bygon
                                
                                  And trewely as myn housbond tolde me
                                
                                  I hadde þe beste queynte þat/ mighte be
                                  Line 608 
                                
                                  [for certis I am al fully Venerian [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14. Only this Oxf. MS has these lines. Barlow 20 omits ll. 605-8 too.—G. P.]] 
                                
                                  in feling / and myn herte is Marcian
                                
                                  Venus me yaff my lust / my likerousnes
                                
                                  and Mars yaff me / my sturdy hardynes]
                                  Line 612 
                                
                                  Myn ascendent was Taur and Mars þerinne
                                
                                  Allas allas þat euer loue was synne /
                                
                                  I folwed ay myn inclinacion
                                
                                  By vertue of my constellacion ·
                                  Line 616 
                                
                                  That made me I couþe not wiþdrawe
                                
                                  My chambre of venus from a good felawe
                                
                                  [yit haue I Mars is marke / vppon my face [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14. Laud 600 also has these lines. 619-226, but no other Oxford MS has them.—G. P.]] 
                                
                                  and also in another prevy place
                                
                                  for god so wis be / my sauacioun
                                
                                  I loued neuere / bi no discressioun
                                
                                  but euere folwed / myn appetite
                                
                                  al were he long / shorte / blak or white
                                  Line 624 
                                
                                  I toke no kepe / so that he liked me
                                
                                  how pore he was / ne eke of what degre]
                                
                                  What schulde I seye but at þe monþes ende
                                
                                  This Ioly clerk Iankyn þat was so heende /
                                  Line 628 
                                
                                  haþ wedded me with gret solempnite
                                
                                  And to him ȝaf I al þe lond and fee /
                                
                                  That euere was me ȝiuen þer byfore
                                
                                  But afterward repentede me ful sore
                                  Line 632 
                                
                                  he nolde suffre no þing of my lest
                                
                                  By god he smot me onys on þe lest
                                
                                  ffor þat I rente out of his book a leef
                                
                                  That of þat strook my eeren woxen deef [folio 112b] 
                                  Line 636

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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 230
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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