The Wright s Chaste Wife - A Merry Tale (about 1462)
Adam, of Cobsam
English
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The Wright's Chaste Wife.
Early English Text Society
Original Series, No. 12
1865
Reprinted 1891, 1905, 1965
Price 7s. 6d.
The
Wright's Chaste Wife,
OR
| "A Fable of a wrygħt that was maryde to a pore |
| wydows dowtre / the whiche wydow havyng |
| noo good to geve with her / gave as for |
| a precyous Johel̴l̴ to hym a Rose |
| garlond / the whyche sche affermyd |
| wold never fade while sche |
| 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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