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

[6-text p 210] of swiche wommen seith Salomon / þat it were bettre dwellen in desert than with a womman þat is riotous / [2278] and sire by youre leue / þat am nat .I. / [2279] for ye han ful ofte assayed / my grete silence & my grete pacience / and eek how wel þat I kan hiden & hele thynges / þat men oghten secrely to hyde [2280] ¶ And soothly / as to youre fifthe reson / wher as ye seyn / þat in wikked con|seil / wommen venquysse men / god woot thilke reson / stant heere in no stede ‖ [2281] ffor vnderstond now /. ye axen conseil / to do wikkednesse / [2282] and if ye wol werke wikkednesse / and youre wyf restreyneþ þilke wikked [folio 219b] purpos / & ouercometh yow by reson and by good conseil / [2283] certes youre wyf oghte rather be preysed / than yblamed ‖ [2284] Thus sholde ye vnder|stonde the Philosophre / þat seith / In wikked conseil / wommen venquyssen hir housbondes [2285] ¶ And ther as ye blamen alle wommen / & hir resons / I shal shewe by manye ensamples / þat many a womman hath be ful good / and yet ben / & hir conseils holsom & profitable [2286] ¶ Eke som men han seyd / þat the conseilyng of wommen / is outher to deere / or ellis to litel of prys ‖ [2287] but al be it so / þat ful many a womman is badde / & hir conseil vile & noght worth; yet han men founde / ful many a good womman & ful discrete & wys in conseilynge [2288] ¶ Lo Iacob / by conseil of his moder Rebekka / wan the beneyson of Ysaak his fader / and the lordshipe ouer alle his bretheren [2289] ¶ Iudith by hir good conseil; deliuered the Citee of Bethulye in which she dwelled / out of þe handes of Olofernus þat hadde it biseged / & wolde it al destroye [2290] ¶ Abigail / deliuered Nabal hir housbonde / fro Dauid the kyng þat wolde han slayn hym / & apaised the Ire of the kyng by hir wit & by hir good conseil|yng [2291] ¶ Hester by hir good conseil / enhaunced gretly the peple of god in the regne of Assuerus the kyng. [2292] And the same bountee in good conseilyng of
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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