And you will used my personal gay bright red robes
525 My personal fifthe housbonde — Jesus their soule blesse! — My 5th husband — God bless their heart! — 526 And therefore that i took having love, without richesse, Just who We got having like, without riches, 527 The guy som tyme was a clerk out-of Oxenford, He had been previously a beneficial clerk off Oxford, 528 And you will hadde kept scole, and you will wente during the hom in order to bord And had kept college, and you may showed up the place to find board 529 With my gossib, dwellynge in the oure toun; Using my buddy, hold inside our city; 530 God possess hir soule! Hir title are Alisoun. Jesus features the girl spirit! This lady label is Alisoun. 531 She realized myn herte, and you can eek my personal privetee, She knew my cardiovascular system, and have my gifts, 532 Wager than simply oure parisshe preest, very moot We thee! 533 To employ biwreyed I my conseil al. 534 To have hadde myn housbonde pissed on a good wal, To own had my better half pissed on the a wall surface, 535 Otherwise doon a thyng that sholde han cost his lyf, Or done something that must have cost their life, 536 To engage, and also to several other worthy wyf, So you’re able to the girl, and to other worthwhile wife, 537 And to my nece, and this that we enjoyed weel, And to my personal relative, exactly who I appreciated really, 538 I wolde han toold their conseil all deel. I’d provides informed every one of their gifts. 539 Therefore i dide ful usually, God they woot, Thus i did that frequently, Jesus understands they, 540 One produced their face have a tendency to reed and you can hoot You to definitely made his face commonly red-colored and you may sexy 541 Getting verray guilt, and you can attributed hymself to possess he Having real shame, and you can charged themselves since he 542 Had toold to me thus welcome a good pryvetee. Got told in my experience so great a secret.
So you can the girl We revealed every my treasures
543 Thereby bifel that of those in an effective Lente — Thereby it happened that once in a spring season — 544 So frequently tymes We back at my gossyb wente, As apparently We went to go to my close friend, 545 Having evere yet We appreciated is homosexual, Having I usually appreciated as gay, 546 And in order to walke when you look at the March, Averill, and may, Also to walk-in March, April, and may, 547 Fro hous to help you hous, to help you heere sondry talys — Of house-to-house, to listen certain items of gossip — 548 One to age Alys, That age Alys, 549 And i also me personally, towards feeldes wente. And that i me, to the fields went. 550 Myn housbonde was at Londoun al one Lente; My hubby was at London area all that Spring; 551 
We hadde new bettre leyser to possess so you’re able to pleye, I experienced the higher opportunity to show your me, 552 And also for so you can se, and eek getting as seye And to discover, and to get noticed 553 Of lusty someone. What wiste We wher my personal sophistication From the amorous visitors. Just what performed I’m sure on the where my good fortune 554 Are shapen to have to-be, or even in just what put? Was bound to become, or perhaps in exactly what lay? 555 Therfore I made my personal visitaciouns Therefore i produced my visitations 556 To vigilies and to processiouns, To religious feasts and to processions, 557 So you can prechyng eek, also to thise pilgrimages, To preaching as well as, and to such pilgrimages, 558 So you can pleyes out of myracles, in order to mariages, So you’re able to takes on from the wonders, and to marriage ceremonies, 559 And you can wered upon my personal gaye vivid red gytes. 560 Thise wormes, ne thise motthes, ne thise mytes, These types of worms, nor this type of moths, nor these mites, 561 Upon my personal peril, frete hem never ever an effective deel; Upon my personal danger (We claim), chewed in it never ever some time; 562 And wostow why? For these were utilized weel. And you can understand thou as to the reasons? While they were well used.