Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

But holde me excused: I am a woman.

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I can not reherse as these clerkes kunne.'

And right anon she hath hir tale bygunne.

Experience, &c.

Here ll. 5 and 6 are imitated from B 1629 and 1630.

The Lansdowne MS. subjoins eight spurious lines at the end of the Squieres Tale, and prefixes to the Wife's Tale the four lines that follow:—

Than shortly ansewarde the wife of Bathe,

And swore a wonder grete hathe,

'Be goddes bones, I wil tel next;