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

                                
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                                  To lerne / what thyng wommen loue moost
                                
                                  But he ne koude / arryuen in no coost
                                
                                  Where as he myghte fynde / in this matere
                                
                                  Two creatures / acordyng in feere
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                                  ¶ Somme seyden / wommen louen best richesse
                                
                                  Somme seyde honour / somme seyde Iolifnesse
                                
                                  Somme riche array / somme lust abeddo
                                
                                  And ofte tyme / to be widwe and wedde
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                                  Somme seyde / that oure herte / is moost esed
                                
                                  Whan that we been / yflatered and yplesed
                                
                                  He gooth ful ny the sothe / I wol nat lye
                                
                                  A man shal wynne vs best / with flaterye
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                                  And with attendaunce / and with bisynesse [folio 69b] 
                                
                                  Been we ylymed / bothe moore and lesse
                                
                                  ¶ And somme seyn / þat we louen best
                                
                                  ffor to be free / and do as vs lest
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                                  And that no man / repreue vs of oure vice
                                
                                  But seye þat we be wise / and no thyng nyce
                                
                                  ffor trewely / ther is noon of vs alle
                                
                                  If any wight wolde clawe vs on the galle
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                                  That we nyl like / for he seith vs sooth
                                
                                  Assay / and he shal fynde it that so dooth
                                
                                  ffor be we / neuer so vicious / with-Inne
                                
                                  We wol be holden wise / and clene of synne
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                                  ¶ And somme seyn / that greet delit han we
                                
                                  ffor to be holden / stable and eek secree
                                
                                  And in o purpos / stedefastly to dwelle
                                
                                  And nat biwreye thyng that men vs telle
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                                  But that tale / is nat worth a Rake stele
                                
                                  Pardee / we wommen / konne no thyng hele
                                
                                  Witnesse on Mida / wol ye heere the tale
                                
                                  ¶ Ouyde / amonges othere thynges smale
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                                  Seyde / Mida / hadde vnder his longe herys
                                
                                  Growynge vp on his heed / two Asses erys
                                
                                  The which vice he hidde / as he best myghte
                                
                                  fful sotilly / from euery mannes sighte

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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 156
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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