The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 471] 
                                  
                                  To euery witht that wit & resoun can
                                
                                  Thus preyseþ he ȝit the bounte of man
                                
                                  A-mongis a thousent men ȝit fond I oon
                                
                                  But of wemen alle fond I noon
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                                  Thus seyde þe kyng þat knowith ȝoure wikkedenesse
                                
                                  And Ihesus [[MS Ihc]]  filyus Syrac as I gesse
                                
                                  Ne spekyth of ȝou but selde reuerence
                                
                                  A wylde fyr & corupt pestylence
                                  Line 2252 
                                
                                  So falle vp-on ȝoure bodyis ȝit tonyght [folio 274a] 
                                
                                  Ne se ȝe nat this honurable knyght
                                
                                  By cause allas that he is blynd & old
                                
                                  His owene man schal make him Cokewold
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                                  Lo heere he sit the lecchour in the tree
                                
                                  Now wele I grauntyn of myn mageste
                                
                                  On-to this olde blynde worthi knyght
                                
                                  That he schal han a-ȝyn hie eyen sight
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                                  Whan that his wyf wolde don hym vilenye
                                
                                  Thanne schal he knowe al hire harloterye
                                
                                  Bothe in repref of hire & of othere mo
                                
                                  Ȝe shal / quod Proserpyne wol ȝe so
                                  Line 2264 
                                
                                  Now by myn moderys syris soule I swere
                                
                                  That I schal ȝeue hire sufficiaun[t] answere
                                
                                  And alle women aftyr for hire sake
                                
                                  That thow they ben in ony gilt I-take
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                                  With face bold they schuln hem self excuse
                                
                                  And bere hem doun that wolde hem accuse
                                
                                  ffor lak of answere non of hem schal deye
                                
                                  Al hadde men seyn a thyng with bothe hise eyen
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                                  Ȝit schul we wemen visage it hardely
                                
                                  And weepe & swere & chyde subtyly
                                
                                  So þat ȝe men schul been as lewede as gees
                                
                                  What rekkith me of ȝoure autoriteis
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                                  I wot wel that this Iew this Salamon [[altered to Salomon]] 
                                
                                  ffond of vs wemen folis many on
                                
                                  But thow he ne fond no good woman
                                
                                  Ȝit hath there foundyn manye a nothir man

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 303
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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