The Canterbury Tales. The Squire's Tale.
THE PROLOGUE. "HEY! Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho, "Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'. Lo, suche sleightes and subtilities In...
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THE PROLOGUE. "HEY! Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho, "Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'. Lo, suche sleightes and subtilities In women be; for aye as busy as bees Are they us silly men for to deceive, And from the soothe will they ever weive, As this Merchante's tale it proveth well. But natheless, as true as any steel, I have a wife, though that she poore be; But of her tongue a labbing shrew is she; And yet she hath a heap of vices mo'.…
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