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

                                
                                     [6-text p 447] 
                                  
                                  Wel may þe seeke man bewayle and wepe /
                                
                                  Ther as þer nys no wijf þe hous to keepe
                                
                                  I warne þe if wysly þou wilt wirche
                                
                                  loue wel þy wyf as crist loueþ his chirche
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                                  If þou loue þy self þou louest þy wyf
                                
                                  No man hateþ his flesch but in his lyf
                                
                                  he fostreþ it/ and þerfore byd I þe
                                
                                  Cherissche þy wijf or þou schalt neuer þe
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                                  housbond & wijf what so men Iape or pleye
                                
                                  Of worldly folk holde þe righte weye
                                
                                  þey ben so knyt þer may non harm betyde
                                
                                  And namely vpon þe wyues syde
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                                  ffor which þis Ianuarye of which I tolde
                                
                                  Considereþ haþ in wiþ his dayes olde
                                
                                  þe lusty þe vertuous quyete
                                
                                  þat is in mariage hony swete
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                                  And for his frendes on a day sent
                                
                                  To telle hem þeffect of his entent
                                
                                  Wiþ face sadde he haþ hem þis tale tolde
                                
                                  he sayde frendes I am hoor and olde
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                                  And almost god wot at my pittis brinke
                                
                                  vpon my sowle somwhat most I þinke
                                
                                  I haue my body folyly dispended
                                
                                  y-blessed be god þat it schal ben amended [folio 146b] 
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                                  ffor I wol be certein a wedded man
                                
                                  And þat in alle þe haste þat I can
                                
                                  vnto som mayde fayr and tendre of age
                                
                                  I pray you schapeþ for my mariage
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                                  Al sodeinly for I wol nouȝt abyde
                                
                                  And I wole fonde aspye on my syde
                                
                                  To whom I may be wedded hastely
                                
                                  But for as moche þat ȝe ben mo þen I
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                                  ȝe schullen raþer such a þing aspyen
                                
                                  þan I and wher me luste best allyen
                                
                                  But o þing warne I ȝou my frendes deere
                                
                                  I wol non old wyf haue in no manere /

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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 325
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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