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

                                
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                                  And eek ther was / som tyme a clerk at Rome
                                
                                  A Cardynal / that highte Seint Ierome
                                
                                  That made a book agayn Iovinian
                                
                                  In which book eek ther was Tertulan
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                                  Crisippus / Trotula / and Helowys
                                
                                  That was Abbesse / nat fer fro Parys
                                
                                  And eek the parables / of Salomon
                                
                                  Ouydes art and bokes many on
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                                  And alle thise were bounden / in o volume
                                
                                  And euery nyght and day / was his custume
                                
                                  Whan he hadde leyser / and vacacion
                                
                                  ffrom oother / worldly ocupacion
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                                  To reden in this book of wikked wyues
                                
                                  He knew of hem / mo legendes and lyues
                                
                                  Than been of goode wyues in the Bible
                                
                                  ffor trusteth wel / it is an inpossible
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                                  That any clerk wol speke good of wyues
                                
                                  But if it be / of holy seintes lyues
                                
                                  Nof noon oother womman / neuer the mo
                                
                                  Who peynted the leon / tel me who
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                                  By god / if wommen / hadden writen stories
                                
                                  As clerkes han / with-Inne hir oratories
                                
                                  They wolde han writen of men / moore wikkednesse
                                
                                  Than al the mark of Adam may redresse
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                                  The children / of Mercurie and Venus
                                
                                  Been in hir wirkyng/ ful contrarius
                                
                                  Mercurie loueth / wysdam and science [folio 66b] 
                                
                                  And Venus loueth / Riot and dispence
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                                  And for hir diuerse / disposicion
                                
                                  Ech faileth / in ootheres exaltacion
                                
                                  And thus god woot Mercurie is desolat
                                
                                  In pisces / wher venus is exaltat
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                                  And venus faileth / ther Mercurie is reysed
                                
                                  Ther-fore no womman / of no clerk is preysed
                                
                                  The clerk whan he is old / and may noght do
                                
                                  Of venus werkes / worth his olde sho

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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 148
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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