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

                                
                                     [6-text p 171] 
                                  
                                  ffyue houres for to slepen on a nyght
                                
                                  But it were for an olde palled knight
                                  Line 1292 
                                
                                  As ben þese wedded men þat lye and dare
                                
                                  As in a forme sitte alway an hare
                                
                                  Were al forstraught wiþ houndes grete and smale
                                
                                  But deere neece why be ȝe so pale /
                                  Line 1296 
                                
                                  I trowe certes þat oure goode man
                                
                                  haþ ȝou laboured seþenes þe night bygan
                                
                                  þat ȝou were neede to resten hastily
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word he lough ful meryly
                                  Line 1300 
                                
                                  And of his owne þought he wax al reed
                                
                                  This fayre wyf gan to schake hire heed
                                
                                  And sayde þus ȝe god wot al quod sche
                                
                                  Nay cosyn myn it stant nouȝt so wiþ me /
                                  Line 1304 
                                
                                  ffor by þat god þat ȝaff/ me soule and lyf
                                
                                  In all þe rewme of ffraunce is þer no wyf
                                
                                  That lasse lust haþ to þat sory pley
                                
                                  ffor I may synge allas and welawey
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                                  þat I was born but to no wight quod sche
                                
                                  Dar I nouȝt telle how it stant wiþ me
                                
                                  Wherfore I þenke out of þis lond to wende
                                
                                  Or elles of myself to make an ende /
                                  Line 1312 
                                
                                  So ful am I of drede and of care [folio 206a] 
                                
                                  This monk bygan vpon þis wyf to stare
                                
                                  And sayde allas my neece god it forbede
                                
                                  That ȝe for eny sorwe or ony drede
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                                  ffordo ȝoure self but telleþ forþ ȝoure greef
                                
                                  Peraduenture I may in ȝour mescheef
                                
                                  Counseile or helpe and þerfore telleþ me
                                
                                  All ȝoure annoye for it schal be secre
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                                  ffor on my portos I make an oth
                                
                                  þat neuer in my lijf for leef ne loþ
                                
                                  Ne schal I of no counseil ȝou bewreye
                                
                                  The same aȝein to ȝou quod sche I seye
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                                  By god and by þis portos I swere
                                
                                  þey men wolde me al to peeces tere

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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 458
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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