Of the wydowe that wolde not weddefor bodily pleasure.
He knew not Catoun, for his wyt was rude, That bad man schulde wedde his similitude.
Of the wydow that wolde nat wedde for bodily pleasure.
But had I the in grene wode, Under my trystell tre, 70 Thou sholdest leve me a better wedde Than thy trewe lewte.
Passage shalt thou pai here under the grene-wode tre, Or els thou shalt leve a wedde with me.
And zif the womman dye before the husbonde, men brennen him with hire, zif that he wole; and zif he wil not, no man constreynethe him thereto; but he may wedde another tyme with outen blame and repreef.
And thei seye, that fornicatioun is no synne dedly, but a thing that is kyndely: and the men and women scholde not wedde but ones; and whoso weddethe oftere than ones, here children ben bastardis and geten in synne.
For ye lyve in no love, Ne no lawe holde; Manye of yow newedde noght The womman that ye with deele, But as wilde bestes with 'wehee!
Woltow wedde this womman," quod the kyng, "If I wole assente?
I, "Ye faren lik thise woweris That wedde none widwes But for to welden hir goodes.
A wyfe for to wedde & haue to look after his That myght hys goodes kepe and saue, goods.
The Moder which this Souldan bar Was thanne alyve, and thoghte this Unto hirself: "If it so is Mi Sone him wedde in this manere, Than have I lost my joies hiere, For myn astat schal so be lassed.
Bot as nature hem hath excited, Thei token thanne litel hiede, The brother of the Sosterhiede To wedde wyves, til it cam Into the time of Habraham.
But nathelees I see your trewe entente, And truste upon your wit, and have don ay; Wherfor of my free wil I wol assente 150 To wedde me, as sone as ever I may.
For thogh the peple have no greet insight In vertu, he considered ful right Hir bountee, and disposed that he wolde Wedde hir only, if ever he wedde sholde.
I was shape To wedde a milksop or a coward ape, 3100 That wol be overlad with every wight!
Wel ny alle othere cures leet he slyde, And eek he nolde, and that was worst of alle, Wedde no wyf, for noght that may bifalle.
Thou seist to me, it is a greet meschief To wedde a povre womman, for costage; And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, 250 Than seistow that it is a tormentrye To suffre hir pryde and hir malencolye.
He knew nat Catoun, for his wit was rude, That bad man sholde wedde his similitude.
Joseph; with this rynge now wedde thi wyff, And be her hand, now, thou her take.
Ser, with this rynge, I wedde her ryff, And take her' now her' for my make.
When my husband is from the world i-gone, Some Christian man shall wedde me anon.
I say that in the fieldes walked we Till truely we had such dalliance This clerk and I, that of my purveyance I spake to him, and saide how that he If I were widdow, shoulde wedde me.
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