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

                                
                                     [6-text p 451] 
                                  
                                  To whom he ȝeuyþ his lond oþer his catel
                                
                                  And seþenes I aught/ auyse me right wel
                                
                                  To whom I ȝiue my good awey fro me
                                
                                  Wel more I auȝte to auȝse me
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                                  To whom I ȝiue my body for alwey
                                
                                  I warne ȝou wel it nys no childes pley
                                
                                  To take a wijf wiþoute auysement
                                
                                  Men moste enquere þis is myn assent
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                                  Wheþer she be wys or sobre or drunkelewe
                                
                                  Oþer proude oþer oþerwey a schrewe
                                
                                  A chydester or a wastour of þy good
                                
                                  Oþir riche or pore or of maneres wood
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                                  Al be it so þat no man fynde schal
                                
                                  None in þis worlde þat trottiþ hool in al
                                
                                  Ne man ne beeste suche as men conne deuyse
                                
                                  But naþeles it auȝt ynough suffise
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                                  Wiþ any wijf if þat so were sche hadde
                                
                                  mo goode þewes þan hire vices badde
                                
                                  And al þis askeþ leiser for to enquere /
                                
                                  ffor god it woot I haue wepte many a teere
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                                  fful priuyly siþ þat I hadde a wyf
                                
                                  Preyse who so wole a wedded mannes lijf
                                
                                  Certayn I fynde in hit but coste and care
                                
                                  And obseruaunces of alle blisses bare [folio 148b] 
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot my neygheburs aboute.
                                
                                  And namely of wommen many a rowte
                                
                                  Sayn þat I haue þe moste stedefast wijf
                                
                                  And eek þe meekest oon þat bereþ lijf
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                                  But I wot best wher wryngeþ me my scho
                                
                                  ȝe may for me right as ȝou likeþ do
                                
                                  Auyseþ ȝou ȝe ben a man of age
                                
                                  how þat ȝe entren in to mariage
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                                  And namely wiþ a ȝong wijf and a fayr
                                
                                  By him þat made water erþe and ayr
                                
                                  þe ȝongest man þat is in al þis route
                                
                                  Is besy ynough to bringen it aboute

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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 329
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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