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

                                
                                     [6-text p 449] 
                                  
                                  Or for þat ilke man schulde helpe oþer
                                
                                  In meschief as a soster schal do a broþer
                                
                                  And lyue in chastite ful heuenly
                                
                                  But sires by ȝour leue þat am not I
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                                  ffor [god] be þanked I dar make auaunt
                                
                                  I feele my lemes starke and suffisaunt
                                
                                  To don al þat a man bilongeþ to do
                                
                                  I wot my seluen best what I may do
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                                  þough I be hoor and fare / as doþ a tree
                                
                                  þat blosmeth er þat fruyt y-waxe be
                                
                                  A blossemed tree nys neyþer druye ne deed
                                
                                  I feele me no wher hoor but on myn heed
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                                  Myn herte and myn lymes ben as greene
                                
                                  As laurere þat purgh þe ȝer is seene
                                
                                  And seþenes ȝe han herd al myn entent
                                
                                  I pray ȝou to my wille þat ȝe assent
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                                  Dyuerse men dyuersely him tolde
                                
                                  Of mariages many ensamples olde
                                
                                  Some blamed it some preysed it certein
                                
                                  But atte laste schortly for to seyn
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                                  As alday falleþ altercacion
                                
                                  Bitwixe frendes in disputacion
                                
                                  þer fel a stryf betwixe his breþeren tuo
                                
                                  Of which þat on was cleped Placebo [folio 147b] 
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                                  Placebo seyde o Ianuare broþer
                                
                                  To ȝou telle I þis tale and to non oþer
                                
                                  fful litel need hadde ȝe my lord so deere /
                                
                                  Counseil to aske of any þat is heere
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                                  But þat ȝe be on so ful of sapience
                                
                                  þat ȝou ne likeþ for ȝour heigh prudence
                                
                                  To weyue fro þe word of Salomon
                                
                                  This word sayde he vnto vs euerychon
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                                  Wirke alle þing by counseil þus seyde he
                                
                                  And þanne schalt þou nouȝt repente þe
                                
                                  But þough þat Salomon speke such a word
                                
                                  myn owen deere brother and my lord

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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 327
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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