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

                                
                                     [6-text p 450] 
                                  
                                  So wisly god my soule bringe at reste
                                
                                  I halde ȝoure owne counseil for þe beste
                                
                                  ffor broþer myn of me take þis motyf
                                
                                  I haue now ben a court man al my lyf
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                                  And ȝit god wot þough I vnworþy be
                                
                                  I haue standen in ful gret degre
                                
                                  Abouten lordes in ful gret estate
                                
                                  ȝit hadde I neuer wiþ non of hem debate
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                                  I neuer hem contraried trewely
                                
                                  I wot wel þat my lord can more þan I
                                
                                  What þat he saiþ I halde it ferme & stable
                                
                                  I saye þe same or oþer þing semblable
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                                  A ful gret fool is eny counseilour
                                
                                  þat serueþ eny lord of heih honour
                                
                                  þat dar presume or ones þenken it/
                                
                                  þat his counseil schulde passe his lordes witt
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                                  Nay lordes ben no fooles by my fay
                                
                                  ȝe haue ȝoure self spoken here to day
                                
                                  So heih sentence so holy and so wel
                                
                                  That I consente and conferme euery del
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                                  ȝoure wordes alle and ȝoure opynioun
                                
                                  By god þer nys no man in al þis toun
                                
                                  Ne in ytaille couþe bet han sayd
                                
                                  Crist haldeþ him of þis ful wel a-payd [folio 148a] 
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                                  And trewely it is an heih corage
                                
                                  Of eny man þat stopen is in age
                                
                                  To take a ȝong wyf by my fader kyn
                                
                                  ȝoure herte hangeþ vpon a Ioly pyn
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                                  Doþ now in þis matier right as ȝou leste
                                
                                  ffor fynally I halde it for þe beste
                                
                                  ¶ Iustynus þat ay stille sat and herde
                                
                                  he right on þis wise to Placebo answerde
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                                  Now broþer myn be pacient I preye
                                
                                  Siþenes ȝe han sayd and herkneþ what I seye
                                
                                  Senek amonges oþer wordes wyse
                                
                                  Seiþ þat a man him oughte right wel auyse

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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 328
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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