The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  Sche saiþ nouȝt ones nay whan he saiþ ȝe
                                
                                  Do þis saiþ he al redy sire seyþ sche
                                
                                  O blisful ordre O wedlok precious
                                
                                  þou art so mery and eek so vertuous
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                                  And so comended and aproued eke
                                
                                  That euery man þat halt/ him worþ a leek
                                
                                  vpon his bare knees aught al his lijf
                                
                                  þanken his god þat him haþ sent a wyf
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                                  Oþer preyed god him for to sende
                                
                                  A wijf to laste vnto his lyues ende
                                
                                  ffor þanne his lijf is sett in sikernesse
                                
                                  he may nouȝt be desceyued as I gesse
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                                  So þat he werche after his wyues reed
                                
                                  þanne may he boldely beren vp his heed
                                
                                  þey ben so trewe and so wys
                                
                                  ffor which if þou wolt worchen as þe wyse
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                                  Do alway so as þe womman wol þe rede
                                
                                  lo how þat Iacob as þise clerkes rede
                                
                                  By good counseil of his moder rebekke
                                
                                  Band þe kydes skyn abouten his nekke
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                                  ffor which his fadres benyson he wan
                                
                                  lo Iudith as þe story eek telle can
                                
                                  By wys counseil sche goddes poeple kepte
                                
                                  And slough him Olophinus whiles he slepte [folio 146a] 
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                                  Lo how Abygayle by good counseil how þat sche
                                
                                  Saued hire housbonde Nabal whan þat he
                                
                                  Schulde han be slayn and loke after also
                                
                                  By good counseil delyuered out of wo
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                                  The poeple of god and made him mardoche
                                
                                  Of Assuer enhaunced for to be
                                
                                  Ther is no þing gree superlatiff
                                
                                  As seiþ Senek aboue an humble wyf
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                                  Suffre þyn wyues tonge as Catoun byt
                                
                                  Sche schal comaunde and þou schalt suffre yt
                                
                                  And ȝit sche wolde obeye of curtesye
                                
                                  A wyf is kepere of þin housbondrye

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 324
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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