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

                                
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                                  Styborne .I. was as is a lyonesse
                                
                                  And of my tonge a verreie Iangeleres
                                
                                  And walke .I. walde as .I. had do be-forne
                                
                                  Frome house to house al þouhe he had it sworne
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                                  For wiþ often time he wolde preche
                                
                                  And me olde romans gestes teche
                                
                                  Howe he simplicius gallus left his wif
                                
                                  And hire for-soke for terme of his lif
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                                  Not bot for hopen hede he hire seie
                                
                                  Lokeynge oute att his dore on a daie
                                
                                  Anoþer Romeyne tolde he me be name
                                
                                  That for his wif was att a somer game
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                                  Wiþ-owte his weteinge he for-sooke here eke
                                
                                  And þan wolde he vpon his bible seeke
                                
                                  þat ilke prouerbe of ecclesiast
                                
                                  Where he commandeþ and for-bedeþ fast
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                                  Man schal not suffur his wif go roile a-boute
                                
                                  Than wolde he saie riht þus wiþ-outen doute
                                
                                  ¶ Who so þat bildeþ his house al of salowes [Nota] 
                                
                                  And prikeþ his blinde hors ouere þ[e] falowes
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                                  And sufferþ his wif for seken halowes
                                
                                  Is worþi to be honge on þe galowes
                                
                                  Bot al for not .I. set not an hawe
                                
                                  Of his prouerbes ne of his olde lawe.
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                                  Ne .I. wolde nouht of him correct be [folio 95a] 
                                
                                  .I. hate him þat my vice telleþ me
                                
                                  And so do mo god wote of vs þan .I.
                                
                                  þis maade him wiþe me woode al vtterly
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                                  .I. nolde nouht for-bere him in no caas
                                
                                  Nowe wil .I. seye ȝowe soþe be seint thomas
                                
                                  Whi þat .I. rent oute of his boke a lefe
                                
                                  For whiche he smote me þat .I. was defe
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                                  He had a booke þat gladly nyht and daie
                                
                                  For his disporte he wolde rede al weie
                                
                                  He clepede valerye and theofraste
                                
                                  Att whiche boke he lauhe al-weye ful fast

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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 231
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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