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 ...

                                
                                  Mote thy welked nekke / be to-broke
                                
                                  Thow seist that droppyng houses / & eke smoke
                                
                                  And chidyng wyues / maken men to flee
                                
                                  Out of hire owen houses / a benedicite
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                                  what eilith swich an olde man / to chide
                                
                                  Thow seist we wyues / wyln oure vices hide
                                
                                  Til we be fast / and thanne we wol hem shewe
                                
                                  wel may this be / a prouerbe of a shrewe
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                                  Thow seist that Oxen / Assen / Hors and houndes
                                
                                  They ben assayed / at diuerse stoundes
                                
                                  Basyns / lauours / or that men hem bye
                                
                                  Spones stoles / and al swiche husbondrye [folio 70b] 
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                                  And so ben pottes / clothes and array
                                
                                  But men of wommen / maken noon assay
                                
                                  Til they ben wedded / olde doted shrewe
                                
                                  And thanne seist þou / we wol oure vices shewe
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                                  Thow seist also / that it displeseth me
                                
                                  But if þat þou wylt preyse / my beaute
                                
                                  And but thow poure / alwey vp-on my face
                                
                                  And clepe me fair dame / in euery place
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                                  And but thow make a feest / on thilke day
                                
                                  That I was born / and make me fressh and gay
                                
                                  And but thow do / to my norice honour
                                
                                  And to my chaumberer / with-Inne my boure
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                                  And to my fadres folk / and hise allies
                                
                                  Thus seist þou olde barel / ful of lyes
                                
                                  And ȝet of oure Apprentys / Iankyn
                                
                                  ffor his crispe heer shynynge / as gold fyn
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                                  And for he squyereth me / vp and doun
                                
                                  Ȝet hast þou caught / a fals suspecion
                                
                                  I wol him nought / though þou were ded to-morwe
                                
                                  But telle me þis / why / hidest thow with sorwe
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                                  The keyes of thy chest / a-wey fro me
                                
                                  It is my good / as wel as thyn / parde
                                
                                  what wenest thow / to make an Idiote of oure dame
                                
                                  Now by that lord / that cleped is Seynt Iame

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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 175
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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