The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Thou shalt nat bothe / thogh thou were wood
                                
                                  Be maister / of my body / and of my good
                                
                                  That oon thou shalt forgo / maugree thyne eyen
                                
                                  What nedeth thee / of me / to enquere or spyen
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                                  I trowe / thou woldest loke me in thy chiste
                                
                                  Thou sholdest seye / wyf go wher thee liste
                                
                                  Taak youre disport I wol leue no talys
                                
                                  I knowe yow / for a trewe wyf dame Alys
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                                  We loue no man / that taketh kepe / or charge [folio 70b] 
                                
                                  Wher that we goon / we wol ben at our large
                                
                                  ¶ Of alle men / blessed moot he be
                                
                                  The wise Astrologien / Daun Protholome
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                                  That seith this prouerbe / in his Almageste
                                
                                  Of alle men / his wysdom is the hyeste
                                
                                  That rekketh neuere / who hath the world in honde [¶ Intra omnes alcior existit/ qui non curat in cuius manu sit mundus] 
                                
                                  By this prouerbe / thou shalt vnderstonde
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                                  Haue thou ynogh / what thar thee recche or care
                                
                                  How myrily / that othere folkes fare
                                
                                  ffor certeyn / olde dotard by youre leue
                                
                                  Ye shul haue queynte / right ynogh at eue
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                                  He is to greet a nygard / that wolde werne
                                
                                  A man / to lighte his candle at his lanterne
                                
                                  He shal haue / neuer the lasse light pardee
                                
                                  Haue thou ynogh / thee thar nat pleyne thee
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                                  ¶ Thou seyst also / þat if we make vs gay
                                
                                  With clothyng and with precious array
                                
                                  That it is peril of oure chastitee
                                
                                  And yet with sorwe / thou most enforce thee
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                                  And seye thise wordes / in the Apostles name [¶ similiter & mulieres in habitu ornato cum verecundia & castitate ornent se / non in tortis crinibus aut auro aut margaritis siue veste preciosa & cetera /. Hec Paulus] 
                                
                                  In habit maad / with chastitee and shame
                                
                                  Ye wommen / shul apparaille yow quod he
                                
                                  And noght in tressed heer / and gay perree
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                                  As perles / ne with gold / ne clothes riche
                                
                                  After thy text ne after thy Rubriche
                                
                                  I wol nat wirche / as muchel as a gnat
                                
                                  ¶ Thou seydest this / that I was lyk a Cat

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 176
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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