The Wife of Bath's Tale Folio 81r 2 of 10 folios
Cast vp the curtyn / loke how that it is
And whan þ t the knygħ t / saw verreyly al this
That she so fair was / & so ȝong
1225
For ioye he hent hire / in hise armes two
His hert bathed / in a batħ of blisse
A thousand tymes a rowe / he gan hire kysse
And she obeyed hī / in euer y thyng
That mygħ t don hī plesaunce / or likyng
1230
In par fyt ioye / and iħ u crist vs sende
Husbondes meke / ȝonge and fressħ a bedde
And grace to ouer byde hem / that we wedde
1235
That nougħ t wyl be gouer ned / by here wyues
And olde and angry / nygardes of despence
God sende hem sone / verray pestilence