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The Wright's Chaste Wife

or "A Fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre / the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her / gave as for a precyous Johelle to hym a Rose garlond / the whyche she affermyd wold never fade while she kept truly her wedlok." A Merry Tale, by Adam of Cobsam, from a ms. in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D. Copied and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall
 

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The Wright's Chaste Wife

or "A Fable of a wryght that was maryde to a pore wydows dowtre / the whiche wydow havyng noo good to geve with her / gave as for a precyous Johelle to hym a Rose garlond / the whyche she affermyd wold never fade while she kept truly her wedlok." A Merry Tale, by Adam of Cobsam, from a ms. in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth, about 1462 A.D. Copied and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall

Published for The Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.
London
1865