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

                                
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                                  þei hateþ þat her husbonde loueþ aye
                                
                                  He seid a womman kest hir schame awaye
                                
                                  Whan sche cast of hire smok and forþermo
                                
                                  A faire womman bot sche be chaste also
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                                  Is like a gold ringe on a sowes nose
                                
                                  Who walde wene or wold suppose
                                
                                  þe wo þat in myne hert was and pine
                                
                                  And whan .I. sawe he wolde neuer fyne
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                                  To reden on þis cursed booke al nyht
                                
                                  Al sodanly. þre leues had .I. plyht.
                                
                                  Out of his boke riht as he redde and eke [folio 96b] 
                                
                                  .I. wiþ my fiste so toke him on þe cheke
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                                  þat in oure fire he fel bakward a-doune
                                
                                  And he vp stert as doþe a woode lyone
                                
                                  And wiþ his fist he smote me on þe hede
                                
                                  Þat in þe flore .I. laie as .I. ware dede
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                                  And whan he sawhe howe stille þat .I. laie
                                
                                  He was a-gast and wolde haue fledde a-waie
                                
                                  Til atte þast owte of myne swohe .I. braide
                                
                                  O hastowe sleyne me false þefe .I. seide
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                                  And for my lande þus hast þou morþerd me
                                
                                  Or .I. be dede ȝit wil .I. kisse þe
                                
                                  And nere he come and kneled faire a-doune
                                
                                  And seide dere suster Alison
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                                  As helpe me god .I. schal þe neuer smyte
                                
                                  Þat .I. haue done it is þi self to wite
                                
                                  For-ȝeue it me and þat .I. þe be-seke
                                
                                  And ȝit eft-sones .I. hitte him on þe cheke
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                                  And seide þef þus wil .I. me awreke
                                
                                  Nowe wil .I. deye .I. maie no longer speke
                                
                                  Bot att þe last wiþ muchel care and woo
                                
                                  We fell accorded be oure seluen tuoo
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                                  He ȝaue me al þe bride in myn honde
                                
                                  To haue þe gouernance of owse and londe
                                
                                  And of his tunge and of his honde also
                                
                                  And maade him birne his boke anone riht þo

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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 235
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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