The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 344] 
                                  
                                  But who-so wolde senge the cattes skyn
                                
                                  Than wold þe catte . duellen in his In
                                
                                  And if þe cattes skyn be slyk and gay
                                
                                  Sche wol not duelle in house half a day
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                                  But forth sche wil er eny day be dawet
                                
                                  To schewe hir skyn and goon a caterwrawet
                                
                                  This is to say if I be gay sir schrewe /
                                
                                  I wol renne aboute my borel for to schewe
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                                  Sir olde fool what helpith þe to aspien
                                
                                  Þough þou praydest argus wiþ his hundrid yen
                                
                                  To be my warde corps as he can best
                                
                                  In faith he schuld not kepe me but if me lest
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                                  Ȝit couþe I make his berd þough queynte he be
                                
                                  Þou saydest eek þat þer ben þinges þre/
                                
                                  The whiche þinges troublen al þis erþe
                                
                                  And þat no wight may endure þe ferþe
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                                  O leue sire schrewe ihu schorte þy lif
                                
                                  Ȝit prechestow and saist an hateful wif
                                
                                  I-rekened is for oon of þese meschaunces
                                
                                  Ben þer noon oþer of þy resemblaunces
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                                  Þat ȝe may liken ȝoure parables vnto
                                
                                  But if a cely wyf be oon of þo
                                
                                  Thow likenest wommannes loue to helle
                                
                                  To bareyn lond þer water may not duelle
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                                  Thou likenest it/ also to wilde fuyr [folio 91b] 
                                
                                  The more it brenneth þe more it haþ desir
                                
                                  To consume euery þing þat brent wol be
                                
                                  Thou saist right as wormes schenden a tre
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                                  Right so a wif schendith hir housebonde
                                
                                  This knowen þo þat ben to wyues bonde
                                
                                  lordynges right þus as ȝe han vnderstonde
                                
                                  Bar I styf myn housebondes on honde
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                                  Þat þus þay sayde in her dronkenesse
                                
                                  And al was fals but þat I took witnesse
                                
                                  On Iankyn and vpon my nece also
                                
                                  O lord þe peyne I dede hem and þe wo

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 204
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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