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

                                
                                     [6-text p 355] 
                                  
                                  Wher þat hir housbond hid him in a place
                                
                                  ffor which he hadde at Thebes sory grace
                                
                                  Of lyma tolde he me and of lucye
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                                  They boþe made here housbondes for to dye [folio 114a]  [for 109] 
                                
                                  That on for loue þat oþer was for hate
                                
                                  lyma hire housebonde on euen late
                                
                                  Enpoysoned hadde for sche was his foo
                                
                                  Lucia likerous loued hir housbonde so
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                                  That for he scholde vppon hir alwey þinke
                                
                                  Sche yaf him such a loue maner drynke
                                
                                  That he was deed er it was by þe morwe
                                
                                  And þus algates housbondes han sorwe
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                                  Than tolde he me how oon latumyus
                                
                                  Compleigned to his felaw arius
                                
                                  That in his gardyn growed such a tree
                                
                                  On which he seyde þat his wyues þre
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                                  hanged hemselue for hertes dispitous
                                
                                  O leeue broþer quod þis arious
                                
                                  ȝif me a plante of þat blisful tree
                                
                                  And in my gardyn planted schal it be/
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                                  Of later date of wyues haþ he redde
                                
                                  That han slayne here housbondes in þe bedde
                                
                                  And leet hir lecchour dight hir al þe night
                                
                                  Whan þat þe corps lay in þe floor vpright
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                                  And some han dryuen nayles in here brayn
                                
                                  Whil þat þey sleepe and þus þey han hem slayn
                                
                                  Some han ȝiuen poyson in here drynke
                                
                                  He spak more harme þan herte may beþynke
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                                  And þer-wiþ-al he knew of mo prouerbes
                                
                                  þan in þis worlde þer growen gresse or herbes [¶ Solo melius est habitare] 
                                
                                  Bet is quod he þin habitacion
                                
                                  Be with a leoun or a foul dragon
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                                  Than with a womman vsyng for to chyde
                                
                                  Bet is quod he heihe in þe roof abyde
                                
                                  Than wiþ an angry wyf doun in an hous
                                
                                  They ben so wicked and contrarious

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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 234
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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