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

                                
                                     [6-text p 172] 
                                  
                                  Ne schal I neuer for to go in to helle
                                
                                  Bewreye a word of þing þat ȝe me telle /
                                  Line 1328 
                                
                                  Nought for no cosynage ne alliaunce
                                
                                  But verreily for loue and affiaunce
                                
                                  Thus ben þey swore and her-vpon y-kiste
                                
                                  And ilk of hem tolde oþer what hem liste
                                  Line 1332 
                                
                                  Cosyn quod sche if I hadde a space
                                
                                  As I haue non and namely in þis place
                                
                                  þanne wolde I telle a legende of my lyf
                                
                                  What I haue suffred sethens I was a wyf
                                  Line 1336 
                                
                                  Wiþ myn housband and þeigh he be ȝour cosyn
                                
                                  Nay quod þis monk by god and by seint Martyn
                                
                                  he nys no more cosyn vnto me
                                
                                  þan is þis leef þat hangeþ on þe tre
                                  Line 1340 
                                
                                  I clepe him so by seint Denys in ffraunce
                                
                                  To haue þe more cause of acqueyntaunce
                                
                                  Of ȝou which I haue loued specially
                                
                                  Abouen all wommen sikerly
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  This were ynough on my profession
                                
                                  Telleþ ȝoure greef lest þat he come a-doun
                                
                                  And hasteþ ȝou and goþ ȝoure wey anon
                                
                                  My deere loue quod sche O daun Iohn
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  fful leef me were þis counseil to hyde [folio 206b] 
                                
                                  But out it mot it may no lenger abyde
                                
                                  myn housbond is to me þe worste man
                                
                                  þat euer was siþenes þe world bygan
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  But siþenes I am a wyf it sit nouȝt me
                                
                                  To telle no wight of oure pryuyte
                                
                                  Neyþer a bedde ne in non oþer place
                                
                                  God schilde I scholde telle it for his grace
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                                  A wyf ne schal nat seyn of hire housband
                                
                                  But all honour as I can vnderstande
                                
                                  Saue vnto ȝou þus moche telle I schal
                                
                                  As help me god he nys nouȝt worþ at al
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                                  In no degre þe value of a flye
                                
                                  But ȝit me greueþ most his nyggardye

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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 459
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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