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

                                
                                     [6-text p 350] 
                                  
                                  Til trewely we had suche daliance
                                
                                  þis clerke and .I. þat of my purueance
                                
                                  .I. spak to him and seide how þat he
                                
                                  .If .I. were wedowe scholde wedde me
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                                  For certeinly .I. saie for no bobance
                                
                                  þat was .I. neuer ȝit wiþ-oute purueance
                                
                                  Of mariage ne of oþer þinges eke
                                
                                  .I. holde a mannes witte nouht worþe a leke
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                                  þat haþ bott one hole to sterte vnto
                                
                                  And if þat faile þan is þat al y-do
                                
                                  [I bare hym on honde he hadde enchaunted me [[Cambr. Univ. MS Ii 3. 26, leaf 116, line 9]] 
                                
                                  My dame taught me that subtilte
                                
                                  And I seide I mette of hym all nyght
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                                  He wolde haue shamed me as I ley vp-right
                                
                                  And my bedde was verey blode
                                
                                  But yite I hope that ye shull do me good
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                                  ffor good blode be-tokenyth Golde as I was taught
                                
                                  And all was fals I dremed of hym right noght
                                
                                  But as I folowed my Dames lore
                                
                                  [a line misst in the MS.] [Cambr. Univ. MS Ii 3. 26 folio 116a]  [[MS Ii 3. 26 extract stops]] ]
                                
                                  Bot nowe sire lete me se what .I. schal seyne
                                
                                  A ha be god .I. haue my tale a-ȝeine
                                
                                  Whan þat myn faire husbonde laie on bere
                                
                                  .I. wepe al gate. and maad sory chiere
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                                  As wives moten for it is vsage
                                
                                  And wiþ my kerchef kouerde my vesage
                                
                                  Bot for þat .I. was purveide of a make
                                
                                  .I. wepe bot smale and þat .I. vnder take
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                                  To cherche was my husbonde borne on morwe
                                
                                  Wiþ neyhbors þat for him maad sorwe
                                
                                  And Iankin oure clerke was on of þo
                                
                                  As helpe me god whan þat .I. sihe him go
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                                  Affeter þe bere me þouht he hadd a peire
                                
                                  Of leges of feet so clene and faire
                                
                                  þat al my herte .I. ȝaf vn-to his holde
                                
                                  He was .I. trowe tuew[n]ty winter olde

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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 229
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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