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| MerT 1246 A worthy knyght, that born was of Pavye, | 2 |
| MerT 1248 And sixty yeer a wyflees man was hee, | 4 |
| MerT 1254 I kan nat seye, but swich a greet corage | 10 |
| MerT 1255 Hadde this knyght to been a wedded man | 10 |
| MerT 1263 " Noon oother lyf, " seyde he, " is worth a bene, | 18 |
| MerT 1265 That in this world it is a paradys. " | 20 |
| MerT 1268 To take a wyf it is a glorious thyng, | 24 |
| MerT 1268 To take a wyf it is a glorious thyng, | 24 |
| MerT 1269 And namely whan a man is oold and hoor; | 24 |
| MerT 1270 Thanne is a wyf the fruyt of his tresor. | 26 |
| MerT 1271 Thanne sholde he take a yong wyf and a feir, | 26 |
| MerT 1271 Thanne sholde he take a yong wyf and a feir, | 26 |
| MerT 1281 They lyve but as a bryd or as a beest, | 36 |
| MerT 1281 They lyve but as a bryd or as a beest, | 36 |
| MerT 1283 Ther as a wedded man in his estaat | 38 |
| MerT 1284 Lyveth a lyf blisful and ordinaat | 40 |
| MerT 1287 For who kan be so buxom as a wyf? | 42 |
| MerT 1298 A trewe servant dooth moore diligence | 54 |
| MerT 1302 Thy verray freendes, or a trewe knave, | 58 |
| MerT 1304 After thy good and hath doon many a day. | 60 |
| MerT 1305 And if thou take a wyf unto thyn hoold | 60 |
| MerT 1306 Ful lightly maystow been a cokewold. " | 62 |
| MerT 1311 A wyf is Goddes yifte verraily; | 66 |
| MerT 1315 That passen as a shadwe upon a wal. | 70 |
| MerT 1315 That passen as a shadwe upon a wal. | 70 |
| MerT 1317 A wyf wol laste, and in thyn hous endure, | 72 |
| MerT 1319 Mariage is a ful greet sacrement. | 74 |
| MerT 1337 A wyf! a, Seinte Marie, benedicite! | 92 |
| MerT 1337 A wyf! a, Seinte Marie, benedicite! | 92 |
| MerT 1338 How myghte a man han any adversitee | 94 |
| MerT 1339 That hath a wyf? Certes, I kan nat seye. | 94 |
| MerT 1343 She kepeth his good, and wasteth never a deel; | 98 |
| MerT 1350 That every man that halt hym worth a leek | 106 |
| MerT 1352 Thanken his God that hym hath sent a wyf, | 108 |
| MerT 1354 A wyf to laste unto his lyves ende. | 110 |
| MerT 1380 A wyf is kepere of thyn housbondrye; | 136 |
| MerT 1397 And for his freendes on a day he sente, | 152 |
| MerT 1405 For I wol be, certeyn, a wedded man, | 160 |
| MerT 1413 Ye shullen rather swich a thyng espyen | 168 |
| MerT 1419 Bet is, " quod he, " a pyk than a pykerel, | 174 |
| MerT 1419 Bet is, " quod he, " a pyk than a pykerel, | 174 |
| MerT 1428 Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is. | 184 |
| MerT 1429 But certeynly, a yong thyng may men gye, | 184 |
| MerT 1431 Wherfore I sey yow pleynly, in a clause, | 186 |
| MerT 1443 Ther speketh many a man of mariage | 198 |
| MerT 1445 For whiche causes man sholde take a wyf. | 200 |
| MerT 1447 Take hym a wyf with greet devocioun, | 202 |
| MerT 1454 In meschief, as a suster shal the brother, | 210 |
| MerT 1459 To do al that a man bilongeth to; | 214 |
| MerT 1461 Though I be hoor, I fare as dooth a tree | 216 |
| MerT 1475 Ther fil a stryf bitwixe his bretheren two, | 230 |
| MerT 1487 But though that Salomon spak swich a word, | 242 |
| MerT 1492 I have now been a court-man al my lyf, | 248 |
| MerT 1501 A ful greet fool is any conseillour | 256 |
| MerT 1515 To take a yong wyf; by my fader kyn, | 270 |
| MerT 1516 Youre herte hangeth on a joly pyn! | 272 |
| MerT 1524 Seith that a man oghte hym right wel avyse | 280 |
| MerT 1531 To take a wyf withouten avysement. | 286 |
| MerT 1534 Or proud, or elles ootherweys a shrewe, | 290 |
| MerT 1535 A chidestere, or wastour of thy good, | 290 |
| MerT 1544 For, God it woot, I have wept many a teere | 300 |
| MerT 1545 Ful pryvely, syn I have had a wyf. | 300 |
| MerT 1546 Preyse whoso wole a wedded mannes lyf, | 302 |
| MerT 1550 And namely of wommen many a route, | 306 |
| MerT 1555 Avyseth yow -- ye been a man of age -- | 310 |
| MerT 1557 And namely with a yong wyf and a fair. | 312 |
| MerT 1557 And namely with a yong wyf and a fair. | 312 |
| MerT 1564 A wyf axeth ful many an observaunce. | 320 |
| MerT 1568 I counte nat a panyer ful of herbes | 324 |
| MerT 1572 " I seye it is a cursed man, " quod he, | 328 |
| MerT 1580 Many fair shap and many a fair visage | 336 |
| MerT 1582 As whoso tooke a mirour, polisshed bryght, | 338 |
| MerT 1583 And sette it in a commune market-place, | 338 |
| MerT 1584 Thanne sholde he se ful many a figure pace | 340 |
| MerT 1618 And alderfirst he bad hem alle a boone, | 374 |
| MerT 1623 He seyde ther was a mayden in the toun, | 378 |
| MerT 1645 That I shal lede now so myrie a lyf, | 400 |
| MerT 1666 A wedded man hym grace to repente | 422 |
| MerT 1667 Wel ofte rather than a sengle man! | 422 |
| MerT 1673 Swifter than dooth an arwe out of a bowe. | 428 |
| MerT 1717 Ne maden nevere swich a melodye. | 472 |
| MerT 1731 Saugh nevere his lyf so myrie a wedded man. | 486 |
| MerT 1742 Mayus, that sit with so benyngne a chiere, | 498 |
| MerT 1745 On Assuer, so meke a look hath she. | 500 |
| MerT 1750 This Januarie is ravysshed in a traunce | 506 |
| MerT 1772 Al but a squyer, highte Damyan, | 528 |
| MerT 1773 Which carf biforn the knyght ful many a day. | 528 |
| MerT 1809 And many a letuarie hath he ful fyn, | 564 |
| MerT 1839 A man may do no synne with his wyf, | 594 |
| MerT 1843 And thanne he taketh a sop in fyn clarree, | 598 |
| MerT 1848 And ful of jargon as a flekked pye. | 604 |
| MerT 1854 She preyseth nat his pleyyng worth a bene. | 610 |
| MerT 1879 But prively a penner gan he borwe, | 634 |
| MerT 1880 And in a lettre wroot he al his sorwe, | 636 |
| MerT 1881 In manere of a compleynt or a lay, | 636 |
| MerT 1881 In manere of a compleynt or a lay, | 636 |
| MerT 1883 And in a purs of sylk heng on his sherte | 638 |
| MerT 1890 A bryde shal nat eten in the halle | 646 |
| MerT 1907 " He is a gentil squier, by my trouthe! | 662 |
| MerT 1912 And for to been a thrifty man right able. | 668 |
| MerT 1919 His squier, for it was a gentil dede. | 674 |
| MerT 1924 Dooth hym disport -- he is a gentil man; | 680 |
| MerT 1926 Have I no thyng but rested me a lite; | 682 |
| MerT 1930 A squier, that was marchal of his halle, | 686 |
| MerT 1971 Was for to putte a bille of Venus werkes -- | 726 |
| MerT 1996 Right of hire hand a lettre made she, | 752 |
| MerT 2001 And whan she saugh hir tyme, upon a day | 756 |
| MerT 2014 As evere dide a dogge for the bowe. | 770 |
| MerT 2024 In honest wyse, as longeth to a knyght, | 780 |
| MerT 2027 To his degree was maked as a kynges. | 782 |
| MerT 2029 He made a gardyn, walled al with stoon; | 784 |
| MerT 2030 So fair a gardyn woot I nowher noon. | 786 |
| MerT 2037 That stood under a laurer alwey grene. | 792 |
| MerT 2046 He baar alwey of silver a clyket, | 802 |
| MerT 2053 And in this wyse, many a murye day, | 808 |
| MerT 2081 But atte laste, after a month or tweye, | 836 |
| MerT 2100 Ne myghte he speke a word to fresshe May, | 856 |
| MerT 2110 As to be deceyved whan a man may se. | 866 |
| MerT 2130 They been accorded, rownynge thurgh a wal, | 886 |
| MerT 2131 Ther no wight koude han founde out swich a sleighte. | 886 |
| MerT 2134 That Januarie hath caught so greet a wil, | 890 |
| MerT 2137 That in a morwe unto his May seith he: | 892 |
| MerT 2150 On Damyan a signe made she, | 906 |
| MerT 2155 And stille he sit under a bussh anon. | 910 |
| MerT 2156 This Januarie, as blynd as is a stoon, | 912 |
| MerT 2163 Levere ich hadde to dyen on a knyf | 918 |
| MerT 2188 " I have, " quod she, " a soule for to kepe | 944 |
| MerT 2200 Do strepe me and put me in a sak, | 956 |
| MerT 2202 I am a gentil womman and no wenche. | 958 |
| MerT 2210 That Damyan sholde clymbe upon a tree | 966 |
| MerT 2215 For in a lettre she hadde toold hym al | 970 |
| MerT 2228 And many a lady in his compaignye, | 984 |
| MerT 2235 Upon a bench of turves, fressh and grene, | 990 |
| MerT 2247 `Amonges a thousand men yet foond I oon, | 1002 |
| MerT 2252 A wylde fyr and corrupt pestilence | 1008 |
| MerT 2272 Al hadde man seyn a thyng with bothe his yen, | 1028 |
| MerT 2285 Of many a verray, trewe wyf also. | 1040 |
| MerT 2293 What though he made a temple, Goddes hous? | 1048 |
| MerT 2295 So made he eek a temple of false goddis. | 1050 |
| MerT 2296 How myghte he do a thyng that moore forbode is? | 1052 |
| MerT 2298 He was a lecchour and an ydolastre, | 1054 |
| MerT 2304 That ye of wommen write, a boterflye! | 1060 |
| MerT 2305 I am a womman, nedes moot I speke, | 1060 |
| MerT 2315 I am a kyng; it sit me noght to lye. " | 1070 |
| MerT 2316 " And I, " quod she, " a queene of Fayerye! | 1072 |
| MerT 2335 I telle yow wel, a womman in my plit | 1090 |
| MerT 2338 " Allas, " quod he, " that I ne had heer a knave | 1094 |
| MerT 2349 And caughte hire by a twiste, and up she gooth -- | 1104 |
| MerT 2351 I kan nat glose, I am a rude man -- | 1106 |
| MerT 2364 And up he yaf a roryng and a cry, | 1120 |
| MerT 2364 And up he yaf a roryng and a cry, | 1120 |
| MerT 2374 Than strugle with a man upon a tree. | 1130 |
| MerT 2374 Than strugle with a man upon a tree. | 1130 |
| MerT 2397 But, sire, a man that waketh out of his sleep, | 1152 |
| MerT 2399 Upon a thyng, ne seen it parfitly, | 1154 |
| MerT 2401 Right so a man that longe hath blynd ybe, | 1156 |
| MerT 2404 As he that hath a day or two yseyn. | 1160 |
| MerT 2405 Til that youre sighte ysatled be a while | 1160 |
| MerT 2406 Ther may ful many a sighte yow bigile. | 1162 |
| MerT 2408 Ful many a man weneth to seen a thyng, | 1164 |
| MerT 2408 Ful many a man weneth to seen a thyng, | 1164 |