• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

so With wilde mares as faste as he may goo Sche seyde allas ȝour hors goth in þe fen The wyf cam leepyng inward at a ren What whilk wey is he gon he gan to crye Al was out

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

swich it is a mellere to be fals His wyf is swyued and his doughter als , Of Alayn and of Iohn þat bette him weel And payed for þe soper euery dele , And haþ y lost þe gryndyng

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

a fair man and a bolde þat wonder is but herkeneþ to my tale For his largenesse and for his wyf was fayre For which he hadde alday gret repayre þis noble marchand held a noble hous Or lene vs

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

noble monk of which I ȝou deuyse Or he to Bruges wente in all wyse Wiþ him and with his wyf a day or tweye That he schulde come to seint Denys and pleye A messanger and preyed haþ doun

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

king also That oþer was y cleped Camballo Of which þe eldest highte Algarsyf Hadde tuo sones in Eltheta his wyf This noble king þis Tartre kambyuskan That þer nas no wher swich anoþer man And kepte alway so wel

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

To consume eny þing þat brende wolde be Thou seist þat right as wormes schende a tree Right so a wyf destroyeþ hir housebonde This knowen þey þat ben to wyues bonde Lordynges right þus ȝe han vnderstande Bar I

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

so wel can perche And but ȝe do certein we schul ȝou teche That it is fair to haue a wyf in pees On of vs moot bowen doutelees And siþþe a man is more resonable Than woman is sire

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

pyssed on a wal Or don a þing þat schulde haue cost his lyf To hire and to anoþer worþy wyf And to my neece which I loue wel I wolde han told his counseill euerydell And so I dede

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

with a wōman vsyng for to chyde Bet is Ï he heihe in þe roof abyde Than wiþ an angry wyf doun in an hous They ben so wicked and contrarious þey hateþ þat here housbondes loueþ ay He seyde

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

for al þe metal ne for oure þat vnder erþe is graue or liþ aboue But if þat I þy wyf were and þi loue My loue Ï he nay my dampnacioū Allas þat eny of my nacioū Scholde euere

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

his wijf loked so foule Gret was þe sorwe þe knight hadde in his þought Whan he was with his wyf a bedde brought He walweþ and torneþ to and fro His olde wijf lay smylyng eueremo And seide O

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

for hire sustenaunce And had a wyf , þat held for countenaunce That loued Dys , ryot and desporte Vn to a Compere , of his owen sorte A non he sent his bed , and his array Of that

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

reste Haue here my trouthe , til that myn herte breste Sire , I wil be ȝoure humble , trewe wyf As in my gilt , were either werre or strif Ne wolde neuere god , bytwixte vs tweyne ȝe

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

sharp , on this Citee That be som auenture , or tretee Thow maist haue hire , to lady to wyf For whom I must nedes , lese my lyf For as be weye , of possibilitee Sithe þè art

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

h#299; , to werrey And shortly , eiþer he wold lese hise lyf Or wynnen Emelye , vn to his wyf This is þe effect , and his entent pleyn Now wyl I turne , to Arcite a geyn That

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

bere Than rekke I nought , whan I haue lost my lif Though þt Arcita , wynne hire to his wyf This is the effect , and ende of my preyere ȝeue me mymy lyf , þè blisseful lady dere

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

a tyme mys felle Whan vulcanus , had caught the in his laas And fond the liggynge , by his wyf , Allas For thilk sorwe , that was tho in thyn hert Haue reuthe as wel , vp on

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

Allas the deth , allas myn Emelye Allas departyng , of oure companye Allas myn hertes Quene , allas my wyf Myn hertes lady , endere of my lif What is this world , what asken men to haue Now

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

þè , but euery myghty man Though he were shore ful heye , vp oon his pan Shulde haue a wyf , for al the world is lorñ Religion hath take vp , al the corñ Of tredynge , we

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

Clerk , his tyme spent After his frendis fyndyng , and his rent This Carpenter had wedded , newe a wyf Which þat he loued , more than his lyf Of xviij ȝere , she was of age Ielous he