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

                                
                                     [6-text p 471] 
                                  
                                  To euery wight þat witt and reson can
                                
                                  þus preiseþ he ȝit þe bounte of man
                                
                                  Among a þousand men ȝit fond I on
                                
                                  But of alle wommen fond he neuer noon
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                                  þus seiþ þe king þat knoweþ ȝoure wickednes /
                                
                                  And Ihesus filius Cyrak as I ges /
                                
                                  Ne spekeþ of ȝou but seeldyn reuerens
                                
                                  A wilde fuyre a corumpte pestilens
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                                  So falle vpon ȝour bodyes ȝit to nyght
                                
                                  Ne se ȝe nought þis honurable knight
                                
                                  By cause allas þat he is blynd and old
                                
                                  his owne man schal make him kokewold
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                                  Lo wher he sitte þe lecchour in þe tree
                                
                                  Now wol I graunte of myn mageste
                                
                                  vnto þis olde blynde worþy knight
                                
                                  þat he schal han aȝein his eyȝen sight
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                                  Whan þat his wijf wolde don him vylenye
                                
                                  þan schal he knowe al hire harlottrie
                                
                                  Boþe in repreef of hire and oþer mo
                                
                                  ȝe schal quod Proserpyn and wol ȝe so
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                                  Now by mo moodres syres soule I swere
                                
                                  þat I schal ȝeuyn hire suffisaunt answere
                                
                                  And alle wommen after for ȝour sake /
                                
                                  þat þough þey ben in eny gilt y-take
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                                  Wiþ face bold þei scholden hemself excuse
                                
                                  And bere hem doun þat wolden hem accuse /
                                
                                  ffor lakke of answere non of hem scholde deyen
                                
                                  Al hadde ȝe seye a þing wiþ boþe ȝour eyȝen [folio 158b] 
                                
                                  ȝit schullen we so visagen it hardyly
                                
                                  And weepe and swere and chide subtyly
                                
                                  þat ȝe schuln ben as lewed as here gees
                                
                                  What rekkeþ me of ȝour auctoritees
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                                  I wot wel þis Iewe þis Salamon
                                
                                  ffand of vs wommen fooles many oon
                                
                                  But þough þat he ne fond no good womman
                                
                                  þer haþ I-founde many anoþer man

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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 349
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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