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

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2. [ET Incipit prologus Armigeri [Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 5140, on leaf 169.]

                                  
                                    Ey. goddis Mercy / said our oste tho.
                                  
                                    Nowe suche a wyf / y pray god kepe me fro
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                                    loo suche sleyhtis / and sotiltees
                                  
                                    In wommen bene / for ay as besy as bees
                                  
                                    Ben they / vs secly men to disceyve
                                  
                                    And from the soth / evir wol they weyve
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                                    By this Marchauntis tale / it preveth weell
                                  
                                    But doutles / as true as any steel
                                  
                                    I haue a wyf / though. she pore be
                                  
                                    But of hir tong / a labbyng shrewe is she
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                                    And yit she hath / an heepe of vices mo
                                  
                                    Therof no fors / lat alle such thingis go.
                                  
                                    But wot ye what / in counsail be it said
                                  
                                    Me reweth soore / that y am to hir teyde
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                                    ffor and y shulde rekne / euery vice
                                  
                                    Which that she hath / y-wys y were nyce
                                  
                                    And cause why / it sholde reported be
                                  
                                    And tolde to hir / of som of this menie [[? MS mence]] 
                                  
                                    Of hom it nedith nat / for to declare [Addit. 5140 folio 169b] 
                                  
                                    Syn wommen / can vttir suche chaffare
                                  
                                    And eek my wyt / suffiseth nat therto
                                  
                                    To tellyn all / wherfor my tale is do]

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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