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 ...

                                
                                  Stiburne I was / as is a leonesse
                                
                                  And of my tonge / a veray Iangeleresse
                                
                                  And walke I wold / as I had don byforn
                                
                                  ffrom hous to hous / al-though he had it sworn
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                                  ffor whiche / he often tymes wold preche
                                
                                  And me of olde Romayne gestes / teche
                                
                                  how he / simplicius Gallus / laft his wyf
                                
                                  And hire forsoke / for terme of al his lyf
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                                  nought but for openheded / he hire say
                                
                                  Lokyng out at his dore / vp-on a day [folio 74b] 
                                
                                  A-nother Romayne / told he me by name
                                
                                  That for his wyf / was at a Someres game
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                                  with-outen his wetyng / he forsoke hire eke
                                
                                  And than wold he / vp-on his bible seke
                                
                                  That ilke prouerbe / of ecclesiaste
                                
                                  where he comaundeth / & forbedeth faste
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                                  Man shal nat suffre his wyf / go royle a-boute
                                
                                  Than wold he sey right thus / withoute doute
                                
                                  who-so that bildeth his hous / al of salwes [¶ Nota] 
                                
                                  And priketh his blynd hors / ouer the falwes
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                                  And suffreth his wyf / to seken halwes
                                
                                  Is worthy to ben hanged / on the galwes
                                
                                  But al for nought / I sette nought an hawe
                                
                                  Of hise prouerbes / ne of his olde lawe
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                                  Ne I wold nat of him / corrected be
                                
                                  I hate him / that my vices telleth me
                                
                                  And so don moo of vs / god wot / than I
                                
                                  This mad him with me wood / al vtterly
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                                  I wold nat forbere him / in no cas
                                
                                  Now wyl I sey ȝow soth / by Seynt Thomas
                                
                                  why that I rent out / of his book a leef
                                
                                  ffor whiche he smot me so / that I was deef
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                                  he had a bok / that gladly nyght and day
                                
                                  ffor his desport / he wold it rede alway
                                
                                  he cleped it valerie / and Theofaste
                                
                                  At which book / he lough alwey ful fast

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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 185
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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