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

                                
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                                  ¶ Stiborne I was as is a leonesse /
                                
                                  And of my tonge a verray Iangleresse /
                                
                                  And walke I wolde as I hadde don biforn
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous al þough he hadde it sworn
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                                  ffor wiþ ful often tyme he wolde preche
                                
                                  And me olde romance gestes teche
                                
                                  how he simplicius Gallus lefte his wijf
                                
                                  And hire forsook for terme of his lijf
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                                  Not but for openhede he hir say
                                
                                  Lokyng out at his dore on a day
                                
                                  Anoþer Romayn tolde he me by name
                                
                                  That for his wyf was at a Somer game /
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                                  Wiþoute his wytyng he forsook hire eeke
                                
                                  And þanne wolde he vpon his bible seeke
                                
                                  That ilke prouerbe of ecclesiaste
                                
                                  Wher he comaūndeþ and forbedeþ faste
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                                  Man schal not suffre his wyf to roule aboute
                                
                                  þan wolde he seye right þus wiþouten doute
                                
                                  Who so þat buldeth his hous al of salwes [nota bene] 
                                
                                  And prikeþ his blynde hors ouer þe falwes
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                                  And suffreþ his wijf go for to seeken halwes
                                
                                  Is worþy for to be hanged on þe galwes
                                
                                  But al for nought I sette nat an hawe
                                
                                  Of his prouerbes ne of his olde lawe
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                                  Ne I wolde not of him corrected be /
                                
                                  I hate him þat my vice telleþ me
                                
                                  And so don mo god woot of vs þan I
                                
                                  This made him with me wood al outerly
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                                  I nolde not forbere him in no caas
                                
                                  Now wil I seie ȝou soþ by seint Thomas
                                
                                  Why þat I rent out of his book a leef
                                
                                  ffor which he smot me þat I was deef
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                                  he hadde a book þat gladly night and day
                                
                                  ffor his disporte he wolde rede alway
                                
                                  he clepede valery and Theofraste
                                
                                  At which book he lowh alwey ful faste [folio 113a]  [for 108] 
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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 231
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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