The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  vp-on this noumbre / diffinicion
                                
                                  Men may deuyne / and glosen vp and doun
                                
                                  But wel I woot / expresse / with-outen lye
                                
                                  God bad vs for to wexe / and multiplie
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                                  That gentil text / can I wel vnderstonde [folio 67b] 
                                
                                  Eke wel I woot he seide / þat myn husbonde
                                
                                  Shuld leete fader and moder / and take to me
                                
                                  But of no noumbre / mencione mad he
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                                  Of Bygamye / or of Octogamye
                                
                                  Why shulde men thanne / speke of it velanye
                                
                                  loo heere the wyse kyng / Salamon
                                
                                  I trowe he hadde / wyues moo than oon
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                                  As wolde god / it leueful were to me
                                
                                  To be refresshed / half so ofte as he
                                
                                  Which a ȝift of god / had he for alle his wyues
                                
                                  No man hath swich / þat now on lyue is
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                                  God wot this noble kyng / as to my wytte
                                
                                  The first nyght / had many a mery fitte
                                
                                  With ech of hem / so wel was him on lyue
                                
                                  Blessed be god / that I haue wedded fyue
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  Of whiche / I haue pyked out the beste [[6 spurious lines]] 
                                
                                  Bothe of here nether purs / and of here cheste
                                
                                  Diuerse scoles / maken parfyt [[over 'diuerse werkes' dotted out]]  clerkes
                                
                                  And diuerse practyk in many [[a dotted out]]  sondry werkes
                                
                                  Maken / the werkman parfyt [[man dotted out]]  / sekirly
                                
                                  Of fyue husbondes scoleiyng / am I
                                
                                  Welcome the sixte / whan þat euere he shal
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                                  ffor syn I wol nat kepe me / chast in al
                                
                                  Whan myn husbonde / is fro the world goon
                                
                                  Sum cristene man / shal wedde me a-noon
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                                  ffor thanne the Apostle / seith þat I am free
                                
                                  To wedde a goddes halue / where it liketh me
                                
                                  he seith / that to be wedded / is no synne
                                
                                  Bet is to be wedded / than brynne
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  What rekketh me / though folk sey vylenye
                                
                                  Of shrewed lameth / and his bygamye
                                
                                  I woot wel Abraham / was an holy man
                                
                                  And Iacob eke / as fer as euer y can
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                                  And ich of hem had wyues / moo than twoo
                                
                                  And many a-nother / holy man also
                                
                                  Wheere can ye seen / in any maner age
                                
                                  That heye god defended / mariage

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 168
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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