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

                                
                                     [6-text p 179] 
                                  
                                  þat he hadde ȝou an hundred frankes payed
                                
                                  By redy tokne and he him held yuel payed
                                  Line 1580 
                                
                                  ffor þat I to him spak of cheuysaunce
                                
                                  Me semed so as by his contynaunce
                                
                                  But naþeles by god and heuen king
                                
                                  I þoughte nought to axe of him no þing
                                  Line 1584 
                                
                                  I pray þe wyf ne do no more so
                                
                                  Telle me alway er þat I fro þe go
                                
                                  If eny dettour haþ in myn absence
                                
                                  I-payed þe leste þurgh þin necligence
                                  Line 1588 
                                
                                  I might him axe a þing þat he haþ payed
                                
                                  þis was nas nough affered ne affrayed
                                
                                  But boldely sche seyde and þat anon
                                
                                  Mary I diffye þat false monk daun Iohn
                                  Line 1592 
                                
                                  I kepe nought of his tokenes neuer a deel
                                
                                  he tok me certein gold þis wot I wel
                                
                                  What euele þedam on his monkes snowte /
                                
                                  ffor god it wot I wende wiþouten doute /
                                  Line 1596 
                                
                                  þat he hadde ȝoue it me by cause of ȝou
                                
                                  To do þer wiþ myn honour and my prow
                                
                                  ffor cosynage and eek for bele chere
                                
                                  þat he haþ had fulofte tyme heere [[Skip a leaf which is headed Thopas.]] 
                                
                                  But seþins I see I stonde in such disioynt [folio 211a] 
                                
                                  I wol answere ȝou schortly to þis poynt
                                
                                  Ȝe haue mo slakker dettours þen am I
                                
                                  ffor I wol paye ȝow wel and redily
                                  Line 1604 
                                
                                  ffro day to day and if so be I fayle
                                
                                  I am ȝour wyf score it vpon my tayle
                                
                                  And I schal paye as sone as euer I may
                                
                                  ffor by my trouþe I haue on myn array
                                  Line 1608 
                                
                                  And nought on waste bestowed euery del
                                
                                  And for I haue bestowed it so wel
                                
                                  To ȝoure honour for goddes sake I say
                                
                                  As be nought wroþ but lete vs laughe and play
                                  Line 1612 
                                
                                  Ȝe schuln my ioly body haue to wedde /
                                
                                  By god I nyl nought paye ȝou but a bedde

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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 466
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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