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

                                
                                     [6-text p 172] 
                                  
                                  Ne schal I neuer for to go to helle /
                                
                                  Bywreye word . of þing þat ȝe me telle
                                  Line 1328 
                                
                                  Not for no cosynage ne alliaunce
                                
                                  But verrayly for loue and affiaunce
                                
                                  Thus ben þay sworn and her-vpon I-kist
                                
                                  And ilk of hem told oþer what hem list
                                  Line 1332 
                                
                                  Cosyn quod sche if þat I had a space /
                                
                                  As I haue noon and namly in þis place
                                
                                  Then wold I telle a legend of my lyf
                                
                                  what I haue suffred siþ I was a wyf
                                  Line 1336 
                                
                                  wiþ myn housbond þough he be ȝour cosyn
                                
                                  Nay quod þis monk by god and seint martyn
                                
                                  He is no more cosyn vnto me
                                
                                  Than is þis leef þat hongeþ on þe tre
                                  Line 1340 
                                
                                  I clepid him so by seint Denis of Fraunce
                                
                                  To haue þe more cause of acqueyntaunce
                                
                                  Of ȝow which I haue loued specially
                                
                                  Abouen alle wommen sikerly
                                  Line 1344 
                                
                                  This swere I ȝow on my professioun
                                
                                  Tellith ȝoure greef lest þat he come a doun
                                
                                  And hasteth ȝow and goþ ȝour way anoon
                                
                                  My deere loue quod sche . O dan Iohn
                                  Line 1348 
                                
                                  Ful leef me were þis counseil to hyde
                                
                                  But out it moot it may no more abyde
                                
                                  Myn housbond is to me þe worste man
                                
                                  That euer was siþþe þe world bigan
                                  Line 1352 
                                
                                  But siþ I am a wif it sit nought me [folio 196b] 
                                
                                  To telle eny wight of oure priuete
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  God schilde I scholde telle it for his grace /
                                  Line 1356 
                                
                                  A wyf ne schal not say of hir housbonde
                                
                                  But al honour as I can vnderstonde
                                
                                  Saue vnto ȝow þus moche telle I schal
                                
                                  As help me god he is not worþ at al
                                  Line 1360 
                                
                                  In no degre þe valieu of a flie
                                
                                  But ȝit me greueth most his nigardye

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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 449
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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