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 ...

                                
                                  Than were they made / vp-oon a creature
                                
                                  To purge vryne / and eke for engendrure
                                
                                  But I sey nought / that euery wyght is holde
                                
                                  That hath swich harneys / as I to ȝow tolde
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                                  To gon and vsen hem / in engendrure
                                
                                  Than shulde men take / of chastitee no cure
                                
                                  Crist was a mayde / and shapen as a man
                                
                                  And many a Seynt / sithe þat the world bygan
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                                  Ȝet lyued they euere / in parfyt chastitee
                                
                                  I nyl envye / no virginitee
                                
                                  Lat hem be breed / of pured whete seede
                                
                                  And lat vs wyues / hote barly breede
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                                  And ȝet with barly breed / Mark telle can
                                
                                  Oure lord ihesu / refresshed many a man
                                
                                  In swich estat / as god hath cleped vs
                                
                                  I wol perseuere / I nam nat precious
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                                  In wyfhode wyl I vse / myn Instrument
                                
                                  As freely as my makere / hath it sent
                                
                                  If I be daungerous / god ȝeue me sorwe
                                
                                  Myn husbonde shal it haue / bothe eue & morwe
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                                  Whan that him liste / come forth & paie his dette
                                
                                  An husbonde wol I haue / I wol nat lette
                                
                                  Which shal be bothe / my dettour and my thral
                                
                                  And haue his tribulacion / with-al
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                                  Vp-on his fleessh / while that I am his wyf [folio 69a] 
                                
                                  I haue the power / duryng al my lyf
                                
                                  vp-on his propre body / and nat he
                                
                                  Right thus the Apostel / told it vn-to me
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                                  And bad oure husbondes / for to loue vs wele
                                
                                  Al this sentence / me liketh euerydele
                                
                                  ¶ . vp sterte the Pardoner / and that a-noon
                                
                                  Now dame quod he / by god & by Seynt Iohn
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                                  Ȝe ben a noble prechour / in this caas
                                
                                  I was aboute to wedde a wyf / Allas
                                
                                  What shulde I bye it / on my flessh so deere
                                
                                  Ȝet had I leuere / wedde noon to ȝere

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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 171
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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