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

                                
                                     [6-text p 305] 
                                  
                                  And of hire owne vertue constreyned
                                
                                  Sche haþ ful ofte tyme hire seek feyned
                                
                                  ffor þat sche wolde flee þe companye /
                                
                                  Wher likly was to treten of folye
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                                  As is at festes . Reueles . and at Daunces
                                
                                  That ben occasions of dalyaunces
                                
                                  Suche þinges maken children for to be
                                
                                  To sone rype and bolde as men may se
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                                  Which is ful perilous and haþ ben ȝore
                                
                                  ffor al to sone may sche lerne lore /
                                
                                  Of boldenesse whan sche is a wijf
                                
                                  And ȝe maystresses in ȝoure olde lyf
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                                  þat lordes doughtres han in gouernance /
                                
                                  Ne takeþ of my word no displesance
                                
                                  þinges þat ben sette in gouernynges
                                
                                  Of lordes doughtres only for tuo þinges
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                                  Ouþer for ȝe han kept ȝour honeste /
                                
                                  Oþer ȝe han falle in frelete
                                
                                  And knowen wel ynough þe olde daunce
                                
                                  And konne forsake fully meschaunce
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                                  ffor euermo þer-fore for cristes sake /
                                
                                  kepeþ wel þo þat ȝe vndertake
                                
                                  A þeef of venyson þat haþ forlaft
                                
                                  his likorousnesse and alle his theues craft
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                                  Kan kepe a forest best of ony man [folio 192a] 
                                
                                  Now kepeþ hem wel for and ȝe wil ȝe can
                                
                                  lokeþ wel to no vice þat ȝe assente
                                
                                  lest ȝe be dampned for ȝoure yuel entente
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                                  ffor who so doþ a tretour is certayn
                                
                                  And takeþ heed of þat þat I schal sayn
                                
                                  Of alle tresoun suffreyn pestilence
                                
                                  Is whan a wight betrayeþ Innocence
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                                  ȝe fadres and ȝe modres eek also
                                
                                  þough ȝe haue children be it oon or mo
                                
                                  ȝoure is þe charge of alle here sufferance
                                
                                  Whil þey ben vnder ȝoure gouernance

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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 427
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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