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

                                
                                     [6-text p 354] 
                                  
                                  Than sitte he doune and write in his dotage
                                
                                  That wemmen kan nouht kepe here Mariage
                                
                                  Bot nowe to purpos why .I. tolde þe
                                
                                  Þat .I. was beten for a booke perde
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                                  Vpon a nyht Iankin þat was owre sire
                                
                                  Radd on his boke as he satte be þe fire
                                
                                  Of Eue first þat for hire wykkednesse
                                
                                  Was al man kinde first brouht to wrechednesse
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                                  [for which Ihesu crist / him silff was sleyne
                                
                                  that bought vs with his herte blood ageyne
                                
                                  lo here expresse of recorde / may ye fynde
                                
                                  that woman was the loos / of al mankynde [Laud. MS 600 folio 85a]  [[No other Oxford MS has these lines.—G. Parker.]] ]
                                  Line 720 
                                
                                  þo redde he me howe sampson lost his heris
                                
                                  Slepeinge his lemman kut it wiþþe hire scheris
                                
                                  Thorwhe whiche treson loste he boþe his eyȝen
                                
                                  þo redde he me if þat .I. schal nouht lyȝen
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                                  Of Hercules & of Dyamyre
                                
                                  þat caused him to sett him self a fire
                                
                                  Noþinge forȝate he þe penance and woo
                                
                                  þat Socrates had wiþþe his wyues twoo
                                  Line 728 
                                
                                  Howe þat ancippa kest pisse on his hede
                                
                                  þis sely man satte still as he were dede
                                
                                  He wype his hede no more dorst he seine
                                
                                  Bot or þat þonder stinte comeþ a raine
                                  Line 732 
                                
                                  Of Phasipha þat was queene of Crete
                                
                                  For schrewednesse him þouht þe tale swete
                                
                                  Fy speke no more it [is] a grisely þinge
                                
                                  Of hire orrible lust and hir lykeinge
                                  Line 736 
                                
                                  Of Clitermistra for hir lycherie
                                
                                  þat falsly maad hir husbond for to deye
                                
                                  He red it wiþ ful good deuocion
                                
                                  He told me for what occasion
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                                  Amphiorax att Thebes lost his lif
                                
                                  Myne husbond hadd a legent of his wife
                                
                                  Eriphilem þat for a nouche of golde
                                
                                  Haþe priuely vnto þe Grekes tolde

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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 233
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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