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The Wife of Bath's Tale Folio 73v 1 of 11 folios

His herte bathed / in a bath of blisse

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A thousand tyme a rewe / he gan hir kisse

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And she obeyed hym / in euery thyng

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That myghte do hym plesance / or likyng

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And thus they lyue / vn to hir lyues ende

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In parfit ioye / and Ihū crist vs sende

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Housbondes meke / yonge / and fressħ a bedde

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And grace / touerbyde hem that we wedde

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And eek / I praye Ihū shorte hir lyues

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1235

That noght wol be gouerned / by hir wyues

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And olde / and angry nygardes of dispence

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God sende hem soone / verray pestilence

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¶ Here endeth the Wyues tale of Bathe ~

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The Multitext Edition is developed by the Digital Humanities Institute at The University of Sheffield in collaboration with Estelle Stubbs, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin, Claire Thomson and Linda Cross.

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 22 January 2025].

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