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

                                
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                                  Thow shalt noght bothe / thogh þat thow were wood
                                
                                  Be maister / of my body / and my good
                                
                                  That oon thow shalt forgo / maugree thyne eyen
                                
                                  What helpeth it of me enquere and spyen
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                                  I trowe / thow woldest lok me in thy chiste [folio 62a] 
                                
                                  Thow sholdest seye / wyf/ go wher thee liste
                                
                                  Taak youre disport I nyl leue no talis
                                
                                  I knowe yow / for a trewe wyf/ Dame Alis
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                                  We loue no man / that taketh kepe / or charge
                                
                                  Wher þat we goon / we wol been at oure large
                                
                                  Of alle men / yblessed moote he be
                                
                                  The wise Astrologen / Daun Protholome
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                                  That seith this prouerbe / in his Almageste
                                
                                  Of alle men / his wisdom is hyeste
                                
                                  That rekketh nat who hath the world in hond
                                
                                  By this prouerbe / thow shalt vnderstonde
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                                  Haue thow ynogh / what thar thee rekke / or care
                                
                                  How myrily / that othere folkes fare
                                
                                  ffor certes / olde dotard / by youre leue
                                
                                  Ye shal han queynte / right ynogh at eue
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                                  He is to greet a nygard / that wil werne
                                
                                  A man to lighte a candle / at his lanterne
                                
                                  He shal han / neuer the lasse light pardee
                                
                                  Haue thow ynogh / thee thar nat pleyne thee
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                                  ¶ Thow seist also / that if we make vs gay
                                
                                  With clothyng and with precious array
                                
                                  That it is peril / of oure chastitee
                                
                                  And yet with sorwe / thow most enforce thee
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                                  And seye thise wordes / in thapostles name
                                
                                  In habit maad with chastitee and shame
                                
                                  Ye wommen / shal apparaille yow quod he
                                
                                  And nat in tressed heer / and gay perree
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                                  As perlys / ne with gold / ne clothes ryche
                                
                                  After thy text ne after thy rubryche
                                
                                  I wol nat werke / as muche / as is a gnat
                                
                                  Thow seydest this / þat I was lyk a Cat

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 138
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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