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

                                
                                     [6-text p 586] 
                                  
                                  He wole ȝow haten mortelly certein
                                  Line 313 
                                
                                  Daun Salomon as wise clerkes sein
                                
                                  Techeþ a man to kepe his tonge wel
                                
                                  But as I sayde I am nought text wel
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  But naþeles þus taughte me my dame [folio 260b] 
                                
                                  My sone þenk on þe crowe a goddes name
                                
                                  My sone keepe wel þi tonge and kepe þy frende
                                
                                  A wikked tonge is worse þan a feende
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                                  My sone ffrom a feend men may hem blesse
                                
                                  My sone god of his endeles goodnesse /
                                
                                  Walled a tonge wiþ teeþ and lippes eeke
                                
                                  ffor man schulde him auyse what he speeke
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                                  My sone ful ofte for to mochel speche
                                
                                  haþ many a man be spilt as clerkes teche
                                
                                  But for litel speche auysily
                                
                                  Is no man schent to speke generally
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                                  My sone þy tonge schuldest þou restreigne
                                
                                  At alle tyme but whan þou dost þy peyne
                                
                                  To speke of god in honour and preyere
                                
                                  The ferste vertu sone if þou wolt lere
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  Is to restreyne and kepe wel þi tunge
                                
                                  þus lernen children whanne þey ben ȝonge
                                
                                  My sone of mochel spekyng euel auysed
                                
                                  Ther lasse spekyng hadde ynough suffised
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  Comeþ mochil harm þus was me told and taught
                                
                                  In mochil speche synne wanteþ naught
                                
                                  Wostow wher-of a rakil tonge serueþ
                                
                                  Right as a swerd forkutteþ and forkerueþ
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                                  An arm a tuo my deere sone right so
                                
                                  A tunge kutteþ frendschipe al a tuo
                                
                                  A ianglere is to god abhominable /
                                
                                  Rede Salamon so wys and honorable /
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                                  Rede Dauyd and his psalmys red senekke
                                
                                  My sone speek nought but wiþ þin heed þou bekke
                                
                                  Dissimule as þou were defe if þat þou heere
                                
                                  A Iangler speke of perilous mateere /

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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 598
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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