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

                                
                                     [6-text p 346] 
                                  
                                  I wold nouȝt spare him att his owene borde
                                
                                  For be my trouþe .I. white him worde for worde
                                
                                  As helpe me verrei gode omnipotent
                                
                                  þouhe .I. scholde riht nowe make my testament
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                                  .I. ne hawe him a worde þat it nes quitte
                                
                                  .I. brouht it so aboute be my witte
                                
                                  þat he mot ȝeue it vp as for þe best
                                
                                  Or elles had we neuer bue in rest
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                                  For þouhe he loked as a lyone [folio 92b] 
                                
                                  Ȝit scholde he faile of his conclusione
                                
                                  þan wolde .I. sei goode leue take kepe
                                
                                  Howe Mekely lokeþ wilkin owre schepe
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                                  Com nere my spouse lat me ba þi cheke
                                
                                  Ȝe scholle be al pacient and meke
                                
                                  And hane a swete spiced conscience
                                
                                  Sen ȝe so preche of Iobis pacience
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                                  Suffreþ al-weie synne ȝe so wel can preche
                                
                                  And bot ȝe do certeine we schol ȝowe teche
                                
                                  þat it is faire to haue a wif in pes
                                
                                  One of vs mote bowen douteles
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                                  And siþþe a man is more resonable
                                
                                  Than womman is sir ȝowe must be more suffreable
                                
                                  What eyleþ ȝowe to gruche þus and grone
                                
                                  Is it for ȝe wolde haue myn queynte alone
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                                  Whi take it al lo haue it euery dele
                                
                                  Petere .I. schrewe ȝowe bot ȝe loue me wele
                                
                                  For. if .I. wolde selle my bele chose
                                
                                  .I. couþe walke as fresche as a rose
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                                  Bot .I. wil kepe it for ȝoure owen toþe
                                
                                  Ȝe be to blame be god .I. saie ȝow soþe
                                
                                  Suche maner wordes had we on honde
                                
                                  ¶ Now wil .I. speke of my ferþe husbonde
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                                  My ferþe husbonde was a reueloure
                                
                                  This is to sey he had a paramour
                                
                                  And .I. was ȝonge and ful of ragerie
                                
                                  Stiborne and stronge and Ioly as a pye

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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 225
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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