| ALLE.............6 | |
| WBT 8 And alle were worthy men in hir degree. | 8 |
| WBT 39 Which yifte of God hadde he for alle his wyvys! | 38 |
| WBT 323 Of alle men yblessed moot he be, | 328 |
| WBT 326 " Of alle men his wysdom is the hyeste | 332 |
| WBT 681 And alle thise were bounden in o volume. | 686 |
| WBT 843 That alle the folk shal laughen in this place. " | 848 |
| ALLONE...........1 | |
| WBT 444 Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone? | 450 |
| ALLYES...........1 | |
| WBT 301 And to my fadres folk and his allyes -- | 306 |
| ALMAGESTE........2 | |
| WBT 183 Rede in his Almageste, and take it there. " | 188 |
| WBT 325 That seith this proverbe in his Almageste: | 330 |
| ALSO.............10 | |
| WBT 58 And many another holy man also. | 64 |
| WBT 115 Telle me also, to what conclusion | 120 |
| WBT 293 Thou seist also that it displeseth me | 298 |
| WBT 337 Thou seyst also, that if we make us gay | 342 |
| WBT 373 Thou liknest it also to wilde fyr; | 378 |
| WBT 383 On Janekyn, and on my nece also. | 388 |
| WBT 620 And also in another privee place. | 626 |
| WBT 784 `A fair womman, but she be chaast also, | 790 |
| WBT 815 And of his tonge, and of his hond also; | 820 |
| WBT 825 And also trewe, and so was he to me. | 830 |
| ALTHOUGH.........1 | |
| WBT 640 From hous to hous, although he had it sworn; | 646 |
| ALWAY............1 | |
| WBT 670 For his desport he wolde rede alway; | 676 |
| ALWEY............5 | |
| WBT 295 And but thou poure alwey upon my face, | 300 |
| WBT 437 Suffreth alwey, syn ye so wel kan preche; | 442 |
| WBT 602 But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth. | 608 |
| WBT 672 At which book he lough alwey ful faste. | 678 |
| WBT 753 That, for he sholde alwey upon hire thynke, | 758 |
| ALYS.............2 | |
| WBT 320 I knowe yow for a trewe wyf, dame Alys. " | 326 |
| WBT 548 That Jankyn clerk, and my gossyb dame Alys, | 554 |
| ALYVE............1 | |
| WBT 40 No man hath swich that in this world alyve is. | 40 |
| AM...............7 | |
| WBT 44f Of fyve husbondes scoleiyng am I.] | 50 |
| WBT 49 For thanne th' apostle seith that I am free | 54 |
| WBT 112 And lordynges, by youre leve, that am nat I. | 118 |
| WBT 157 Upon his flessh, whil that I am his wyf. | 162 |
| WBT 174 Of which I am expert in al myn age -- | 180 |
| WBT 609 For certes, I am al Venerien | 614 |
| WBT 809 And seyde, `Theef, thus muchel am I wreke; | 814 |
| AMBLE............1 | |
| WBT 838 What! amble, or trotte, or pees, or go sit doun! | 844 |
| AMOROUS..........1 | |
| WBT 240 Is she so fair? Artow so amorous? | 246 |
| AMPHIORAX........1 | |
| WBT 741 Amphiorax at Thebes loste his lyf. | 746 |
| AN...............13 | |
| WBT 55 I woot wel Abraham was an hooly man, | 60 |
| WBT 154 An housbonde I wol have -- I wol nat lette -- | 160 |
| WBT 271 And seyst it is an hard thyng for to welde | 276 |
| WBT 281 What eyleth swich an old man for to chide? | 286 |
| WBT 311 What, wenestow make an ydiot of oure dame? | 316 |
| WBT 366 Yet prechestow and seyst an hateful wyf | 372 |
| WBT 386 For as an hors I koude byte and whyne. | 392 |
| WBT 457 How koude I daunce to an harpe smale, | 462 |
| WBT 659 But al for noght, I sette noght an hawe | 664 |
| WBT 688 For trusteth wel, it is an impossible | 694 |
| WBT 743 Eriphilem, that for an ouche of gold | 748 |
| WBT 750 Lyvia hir housbonde, on an even late, | 756 |
| WBT 779 Than with an angry wyf doun in the hous; | 784 |
| AND..............264 | |
| WBT 8 And alle were worthy men in hir degree. | 8 |
| WBT 15 Biside a welle, Jhesus, God and man, | 14 |
| WBT 26 Men may devyne and glosen, up and doun, | 26 |
| WBT 26 Men may devyne and glosen, up and doun, | 26 |
| WBT 28 God bad us for to wexe and multiplye; | 28 |
| WBT 31 Sholde lete fader and mooder and take to me. | 30 |
| WBT 31 Sholde lete fader and mooder and take to me. | 30 |
| WBT 44b Bothe of here nether purs and of here cheste. | 46 |
| WBT 44d And diverse practyk in many sondry werkes | 48 |
| WBT 54 Of shrewed Lameth and his bigamye? | 60 |
| WBT 56 And Jacob eek, as ferforth as I kan; | 62 |
| WBT 57 And ech of hem hadde wyves mo than two, | 62 |
| WBT 58 And many another holy man also. | 64 |
| WBT 71 And certes, if ther were no seed ysowe, | 76 |
| WBT 80 But nathelees, thogh that he wroot and sayde | 86 |
| WBT 83 And for to been a wyf he yaf me leve | 88 |
| WBT 89 For peril is bothe fyr and tow t' assemble; | 94 |
| WBT 91 This is al and som: he heeld virginitee | 96 |
| WBT 93 Freletee clepe I, but if that he and she | 98 |
| WBT 97 It liketh hem to be clene, body and goost; | 102 |
| WBT 101 Somme been of tree, and doon hir lord servyse. | 106 |
| WBT 103 And everich hath of God a propre yifte -- | 108 |
| WBT 106 And continence eek with devocion, | 112 |
| WBT 109 Al that he hadde, and gyve it to the poore, | 114 |
| WBT 110 And in swich wise folwe hym and his foore. | 116 |
| WBT 110 And in swich wise folwe hym and his foore. | 116 |
| WBT 112 And lordynges, by youre leve, that am nat I. | 118 |
| WBT 114 In the actes and in fruyt of mariage. | 120 |
| WBT 117 And of so parfit wys a [wright] ywroght? | 122 |
| WBT 119 Glose whoso wole, and seye bothe up and doun | 124 |
| WBT 119 Glose whoso wole, and seye bothe up and doun | 124 |
| WBT 121 Of uryne, and oure bothe thynges smale | 126 |
| WBT 123 And for noon oother cause -- say ye no? | 128 |
| WBT 127 That is to seye, for office and for ese | 132 |
| WBT 134 To purge uryne, and eek for engendrure. | 140 |
| WBT 137 To goon and usen hem in engendrure. | 142 |
| WBT 139 Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man, | 144 |
| WBT 140 And many a seint, sith that the world bigan; | 146 |
| WBT 144 And lat us wyves hoten barly-breed; | 150 |
| WBT 145 And yet with barly-breed, Mark telle kan, | 150 |
| WBT 152 Myn housbonde shal it have bothe eve and morwe, | 158 |
| WBT 153 Whan that hym list come forth and paye his dette. | 158 |
| WBT 155 Which shal be bothe my dettour and my thral, | 160 |
| WBT 156 And have his tribulacion withal | 162 |
| WBT 159 Upon his propre body, and noght he. | 164 |
| WBT 161 And bad oure housbondes for to love us weel. | 166 |
| WBT 163 Up stirte the Pardoner, and that anon; | 168 |
| WBT 164 " Now, dame, " quod he, " by God and by Seint John! | 170 |
| WBT 172 And whan that I have toold thee forth my tale | 178 |
| WBT 183 Rede in his Almageste, and take it there. " | 188 |
| WBT 187 And teche us yonge men of youre praktike. " | 192 |
| WBT 196 As thre of hem were goode, and two were badde. | 202 |
| WBT 197 The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde; | 202 |
| WBT 197 The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde; | 202 |
| WBT 203 And, by my fey, I tolde of it no stoor. | 208 |
| WBT 204 They had me yeven hir lond and hir tresoor; | 210 |
| WBT 212 And sith they hadde me yeven al hir lond, | 218 |
| WBT 214 But it were for my profit and myn ese? | 220 |
| WBT 220 That ech of hem ful blisful was and fawe | 226 |
| WBT 226 Thus shulde ye speke and bere hem wrong on honde, | 232 |
| WBT 228 Swere and lyen, as a womman kan. | 234 |
| WBT 233 And take witnesse of hir owene mayde | 238 |
| WBT 243 And if I have a gossib or a freend, | 248 |
| WBT 247 And prechest on thy bench, with yvel preef! | 252 |
| WBT 250 And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, | 256 |
| WBT 252 To soffre hire pride and hire malencolie. | 258 |
| WBT 253 And if that she be fair, thou verray knave, | 258 |
| WBT 258 Somme for oure shap, and somme for oure fairnesse, | 264 |
| WBT 259 And som for she kan outher synge or daunce, | 264 |
| WBT 260 And som for gentillesse and daliaunce; | 266 |
| WBT 260 And som for gentillesse and daliaunce; | 266 |
| WBT 261 Som for hir handes and hir armes smale; | 266 |
| WBT 265 And if that she be foul, thou seist that she | 270 |
| WBT 271 And seyst it is an hard thyng for to welde | 276 |
| WBT 274 And that no wys man nedeth for to wedde, | 280 |
| WBT 276 With wilde thonder-dynt and firy levene | 282 |
| WBT 278 Thow seyst that droppyng houses, and eek smoke, | 284 |
| WBT 279 And chidyng wyves maken men to flee | 284 |
| WBT 283 Til we be fast, and thanne we wol hem shewe -- | 288 |
| WBT 285 Thou seist that oxen, asses, hors, and houndes, | 290 |
| WBT 288 Spoones and stooles, and al swich housbondrye, | 294 |
| WBT 288 Spoones and stooles, and al swich housbondrye, | 294 |
| WBT 289 And so been pottes, clothes, and array; | 294 |
| WBT 289 And so been pottes, clothes, and array; | 294 |
| WBT 292 And thanne, seistow, we wol oure vices shewe. | 298 |
| WBT 295 And but thou poure alwey upon my face, | 300 |
| WBT 296 And clepe me " faire dame " in every place. | 302 |
| WBT 297 And but thou make a feeste on thilke day | 302 |
| WBT 298 That I was born, and make me fressh and gay; | 304 |
| WBT 298 That I was born, and make me fressh and gay; | 304 |
| WBT 299 And but thou do to my norice honour, | 304 |
| WBT 300 And to my chamberere withinne my bour, | 306 |
| WBT 301 And to my fadres folk and his allyes -- | 306 |
| WBT 301 And to my fadres folk and his allyes -- | 306 |
| WBT 303 And yet of oure apprentice Janekyn, | 308 |
| WBT 305 And for he squiereth me bothe up and doun, | 310 |
| WBT 305 And for he squiereth me bothe up and doun, | 310 |
| WBT 314 Be maister of my body and of my good; | 320 |
| WBT 338 With clothyng, and with precious array, | 344 |
| WBT 340 And yet -- with sorwe! -- thou most enforce thee, | 346 |
| WBT 341 And seye thise wordes in the Apostles name: | 346 |
| WBT 342 " In habit maad with chastitee and shame | 348 |
| WBT 344 " And noght in tressed heer and gay perree, | 350 |
| WBT 344 " And noght in tressed heer and gay perree, | 350 |
| WBT 351 And if the cattes skyn be slyk and gay, | 356 |
| WBT 351 And if the cattes skyn be slyk and gay, | 356 |
| WBT 354 To shewe hir skyn and goon a-caterwawed. | 360 |
| WBT 364 And that no wight may endure the ferthe. | 370 |
| WBT 366 Yet prechestow and seyst an hateful wyf | 372 |
| WBT 382 And al was fals, but that I took witnesse | 388 |
| WBT 383 On Janekyn, and on my nece also. | 388 |
| WBT 384 O Lord! The peyne I dide hem and the wo, | 390 |
| WBT 386 For as an hors I koude byte and whyne. | 392 |
| WBT 387 I koude pleyne, and yit was in the gilt, | 392 |
| WBT 403 And thus of o thyng I avaunte me: | 408 |
| WBT 408 Ther wolde I chide and do hem no plesaunce; | 414 |
| WBT 413 And therfore every man this tale I telle, | 418 |
| WBT 417 And make me a feyned appetit; | 422 |
| WBT 418 And yet in bacon hadde I nevere delit. | 424 |
| WBT 434 Ye sholde been al pacient and meke, | 440 |
| WBT 435 And han a sweete spiced conscience, | 440 |
| WBT 438 And but ye do, certein we shal yow teche | 444 |
| WBT 441 And sith a man is moore resonable | 446 |
| WBT 443 What eyleth yow to grucche thus and grone? | 448 |
| WBT 455 And I was yong and ful of ragerye, | 460 |
| WBT 455 And I was yong and ful of ragerye, | 460 |
| WBT 456 Stibourn and strong, and joly as a pye. | 462 |
| WBT 456 Stibourn and strong, and joly as a pye. | 462 |
| WBT 458 And synge, ywis, as any nyghtyngale, | 464 |
| WBT 464 And after wyn on Venus moste I thynke, | 470 |
| WBT 470 Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, | 476 |
| WBT 475 Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. | 480 |
| WBT 483 But he was quit, by God and by Seint Joce! | 488 |
| WBT 488 For angre, and for verray jalousye. | 494 |
| WBT 491 For, God it woot, he sat ful ofte and song, | 496 |
| WBT 493 Ther was no wight, save God and he, that wiste, | 498 |
| WBT 496 And lith ygrave under the roode beem, | 502 |
| WBT 502 He is now in his grave and in his cheste. | 508 |
| WBT 505 And yet was he to me the mooste shrewe; | 510 |
| WBT 507 And evere shal unto myn endyng day. | 512 |
| WBT 508 But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay, | 514 |
| WBT 509 And therwithal so wel koude he me glose, | 514 |
| WBT 518 Therafter wol we crie al day and crave. | 524 |
| WBT 519 Forbede us thyng, and that desiren we; | 524 |
| WBT 520 Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we fle. | 526 |
| WBT 523 And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: | 528 |
| WBT 526 Which that I took for love, and no richesse, | 532 |
| WBT 528 And hadde left scole, and wente at hom to bord | 534 |
| WBT 528 And hadde left scole, and wente at hom to bord | 534 |
| WBT 531 She knew myn herte, and eek my privetee, | 536 |
| WBT 536 To hire, and to another worthy wyf, | 542 |
| WBT 537 And to my nece, which that I loved weel, | 542 |
| WBT 539 And so I dide ful often, God it woot, | 544 |
| WBT 540 That made his face often reed and hoot | 546 |
| WBT 541 For verray shame, and blamed hymself for he | 546 |
| WBT 543 And so bifel that ones in a Lente -- | 548 |
| WBT 546 And for to walke in March, Averill, and May, | 552 |
| WBT 546 And for to walke in March, Averill, and May, | 552 |
| WBT 548 That Jankyn clerk, and my gossyb dame Alys, | 554 |
| WBT 549 And I myself, into the feeldes wente. | 554 |
| WBT 552 And for to se, and eek for to be seye | 558 |
| WBT 552 And for to se, and eek for to be seye | 558 |
| WBT 556 To vigilies and to processiouns, | 562 |
| WBT 557 To prechyng eek, and to thise pilgrimages, | 562 |
| WBT 558 To pleyes of myracles, and to mariages, | 564 |
| WBT 559 And wered upon my gaye scarlet gytes. | 564 |
| WBT 562 And wostow why? For they were used weel. | 568 |
| WBT 566 This clerk and I, that of my purveiance | 572 |
| WBT 567 I spak to hym and seyde hym how that he, | 572 |
| WBT 574 And if that faille, thanne is al ydo. | 580 |
| WBT 577 And eek I seyde I mette of hym al nyght, | 582 |
| WBT 579 And al my bed was ful of verray blood; | 584 |
| WBT 582 And al was fals; I dremed of it right naught, | 588 |
| WBT 588 I weep algate, and made sory cheere, | 594 |
| WBT 590 And with my coverchief covered my visage, | 596 |
| WBT 592 I wepte but smal, and that I undertake. | 598 |
| WBT 595 And Jankyn, oure clerk, was oon of tho. | 600 |
| WBT 598 Of legges and of feet so clene and faire | 604 |
| WBT 598 Of legges and of feet so clene and faire | 604 |
| WBT 601 And I was fourty, if I shal seye sooth; | 606 |
| WBT 603 Gat-tothed I was, and that bicam me weel; | 608 |
| WBT 606 And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon, | 612 |
| WBT 606 And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon, | 612 |
| WBT 606 And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon, | 612 |
| WBT 606 And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon, | 612 |
| WBT 607 And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me, | 612 |
| WBT 610 In feelynge, and myn herte is Marcien. | 616 |
| WBT 612 And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardynesse; | 618 |
| WBT 613 Myn ascendent was Taur, and Mars therinne. | 618 |
| WBT 620 And also in another privee place. | 626 |
| WBT 630 And to hym yaf I al the lond and fee | 636 |
| WBT 630 And to hym yaf I al the lond and fee | 636 |
| WBT 638 And of my tonge a verray jangleresse, | 644 |
| WBT 639 And walke I wolde, as I had doon biforn, | 644 |
| WBT 642 And me of olde Romayn geestes teche; | 648 |
| WBT 644 And hire forsook for terme of al his lyf, | 650 |
| WBT 650 And thanne wolde he upon his Bible seke | 656 |
| WBT 652 Where he comandeth and forbedeth faste | 658 |
| WBT 656 And priketh his blynde hors over the falwes, | 662 |
| WBT 657 And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes, | 662 |
| WBT 663 And so doo mo, God woot, of us than I. | 668 |
| WBT 669 He hadde a book that gladly, nyght and day, | 674 |
| WBT 671 He cleped it Valerie and Theofraste, | 676 |
| WBT 673 And eek ther was somtyme a clerk at Rome, | 678 |
| WBT 677 Crisippus, Trotula, and Helowys, | 682 |
| WBT 679 And eek the Parables of Salomon, | 684 |
| WBT 680 Ovides Art, and bookes many on, | 686 |
| WBT 681 And alle thise were bounden in o volume. | 686 |
| WBT 682 And every nyght and day was his custume, | 688 |
| WBT 682 And every nyght and day was his custume, | 688 |
| WBT 683 Whan he hadde leyser and vacacioun | 688 |
| WBT 686 He knew of hem mo legendes and lyves | 692 |
| WBT 697 The children of Mercurie and of Venus | 702 |
| WBT 699 Mercurie loveth wysdam and science, | 704 |
| WBT 700 And Venus loveth ryot and dispence. | 706 |
| WBT 700 And Venus loveth ryot and dispence. | 706 |
| WBT 701 And, for hire diverse disposicioun, | 706 |
| WBT 703 And thus, God woot, Mercurie is desolat | 708 |
| WBT 705 And Venus falleth ther Mercurie is reysed. | 710 |
| WBT 707 The clerk, whan he is oold, and may noght do | 712 |
| WBT 709 Thanne sit he doun, and writ in his dotage | 714 |
| WBT 725 Of Hercules and of his Dianyre, | 730 |
| WBT 727 No thyng forgat he the care and the wo | 732 |
| WBT 736 Of hire horrible lust and hir likyng. | 742 |
| WBT 747 Of Lyvia tolde he me, and of Lucye: | 752 |
| WBT 756 And thus algates housbondes han sorwe. | 762 |
| WBT 764 And in my gardyn planted shal it bee.' | 770 |
| WBT 767 And lete hir lecchour dighte hire al the nyght, | 772 |
| WBT 769 And somme han dryve nayles in hir brayn, | 774 |
| WBT 770 Whil that they slepte, and thus they had hem slayn. | 776 |
| WBT 773 And therwithal he knew of mo proverbes | 778 |
| WBT 780 They been so wikked and contrarious, | 786 |
| WBT 783 Whan she cast of hir smok'; and forthermo, | 788 |
| WBT 787 The wo that in myn herte was, and pyne? | 792 |
| WBT 788 And whan I saugh he wolde nevere fyne | 794 |
| WBT 791 Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke | 796 |
| WBT 794 And he up stirte as dooth a wood leoun, | 800 |
| WBT 795 And with his fest he smoot me on the heed | 800 |
| WBT 797 And whan he saugh how stille that I lay, | 802 |
| WBT 798 He was agast and wolde han fled his way, | 804 |
| WBT 803 And neer he cam, and kneled faire adoun, | 808 |
| WBT 803 And neer he cam, and kneled faire adoun, | 808 |
| WBT 804 And seyde, `Deere suster Alisoun, | 810 |
| WBT 807 Foryeve it me, and that I thee biseke!' | 812 |
| WBT 808 And yet eftsoones I hitte hym on the cheke, | 814 |
| WBT 809 And seyde, `Theef, thus muchel am I wreke; | 814 |
| WBT 811 But atte laste, with muchel care and wo, | 816 |
| WBT 814 To han the governance of hous and lond, | 820 |
| WBT 815 And of his tonge, and of his hond also; | 820 |
| WBT 815 And of his tonge, and of his hond also; | 820 |
| WBT 816 And made hym brenne his book anon right tho. | 822 |
| WBT 817 And whan that I hadde geten unto me, | 822 |
| WBT 819 And that he seyde, `Myn owene trewe wyf, | 824 |
| WBT 821 Keep thyn honour, and keep eek myn estaat' -- | 826 |
| WBT 825 And also trewe, and so was he to me. | 830 |
| WBT 825 And also trewe, and so was he to me. | 830 |
| WBT 832 And whan the Somonour herde the Frere gale, | 838 |
| WBT 835 Lo, goode men, a flye and eek a frere | 840 |
| WBT 836 Wol falle in every dyssh and eek mateere. | 842 |
| WBT 845 Quod this Somonour, " and I bishrewe me, | 850 |
| WBT 850 Oure Hooste cride " Pees! And that anon! " | 856 |
| WBT 851 And seyde, " Lat the womman telle hire tale. | 856 |
| WBT 853 Do, dame, telle forth youre tale, and that is best. " | 858 |
| WBT 856 " Yis, dame, " quod he, " tel forth, and I wol heere. " | 862 |