The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 340] 
                                  
                                  Me neded nouȝt do longer diligence
                                
                                  To wynne her loue and done hem reuerence
                                
                                  Thei loued me so wele be god aboue
                                
                                  þat .I. ne tolde no deynte of here loue
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                                  A wise womman wil bisie hire euere in one
                                
                                  To gete hire loue ȝe þare as sche haþe none
                                
                                  Bot seþþe .I. hadde hem holy in myne honde
                                
                                  And siþþe þat þei hadde ȝif me al hir londe
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                                  What schold .I. take hem for to plese
                                
                                  Bot if it were my profit and myne ese
                                
                                  Bot .I. set hem so awerke be my faye
                                
                                  þat mony a nyht þei songen walawaye
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                                  The bacon was nouȝt fette for hem .I. trowe
                                
                                  That sum men haue in Essexe att Donnemowe
                                
                                  I gouerne hem so wele after my lawe [folio 90a] 
                                
                                  That iche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
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                                  To bringe me gay þinges fro þe fayre
                                
                                  Knyves ringes and purces wel fayre
                                
                                  For god it wote .I. chidde hem spitously
                                
                                  Nowe herkeneþe howe .I. bare me propu[r]ly
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                                  Ȝe wise wyves þat can vnder-stonde
                                
                                  Thus scholde ȝe speke and bere hem wronge on honde
                                
                                  For halue so boldely þer can no man
                                
                                  Swere and lye as a womman can
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                                  .I. seie nouht þis be wives þat bue wise
                                
                                  Bot it be whan þet þei hem mis-avise
                                
                                  A wise wif schal if þat sche can hire gode
                                
                                  Bere him on honde þat þe cowe is wode
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                                  And take wittenes of hire owen maide
                                
                                  Of hir assent Bot herkeneþe how .I. saide
                                
                                  Sir olde keynard þis is þin arraie
                                
                                  Whi is my neihbors wif so gaie
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                                  Sche is honoured ouer al wher sche goþe
                                
                                  .I. sette att home .I. haue no þrifty cloþe
                                
                                  What dedest þou att myn neihbors house
                                
                                  Is sche so feire ert þou so amerouse

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 219
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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