The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And here a-geynes non creature on lyue
                                
                                  Of no degre aveileþ for to striue [XII. 6.] 
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                                  Than is it wisdome as þenkes me [XII. 11.] 
                                
                                  To make vertue of necessitee
                                
                                  And take it wele þat we maye nouht eschewe
                                
                                  And name þat to vs al is dewe
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                                  And who gruccheþ ouȝt he doþe folye [XII. 13.] 
                                
                                  And rebel is to him þat al maie guye
                                
                                  And serteinly a man haþ most honoure [XII. 9, 12.] 
                                
                                  To deyen in his excellence and floure
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                                  Whan he is seker of his good name
                                
                                  Than haþe he done his frendes ne him no schame
                                
                                  And gladder ouhte his frendes bene of his deþe
                                
                                  Whan wiþe honoure is ȝolden vp þe breþe
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                                  Than whanne his name apalled is for age
                                
                                  ffor al forȝeten is his vessellage
                                
                                  Than is þe best as for a worþi fame
                                
                                  To deyȝen whan he is best of name
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                                  The contrarie of al þis is wilfulnes [XII. 13.] 
                                
                                  Whi grucchen we whi haue we heuynes [XII. 14-17.] 
                                
                                  That good Arcite of chiualrye þe floure
                                
                                  Departed is wiþ dewte and wiþ honoure
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                                  Owte of þis foule Prisone of þis life
                                
                                  Whi gruccheþ here his cosine and his wife
                                
                                  Of his welfare þat loueþ him so wele
                                
                                  Kanneþ he hem þonke nay . god wote neuer a dele
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                                  That boþen his soule and eke him offende
                                
                                  And ȝit þei mowe her lustes nouȝt amende
                                
                                  What . may .I. conclude of þis longe serie
                                
                                  Bot after woo .I. rede vs to be merie [XII. 19.] 
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                                  And þanke Iubiter al his grace
                                
                                  And er we departen frome þis place
                                
                                  .I. rede we make of sorwes two
                                
                                  O parfite Ioye lasteinge euermo
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                                  And lokeþe nowe whe[r] moste sorwe is inne
                                
                                  Ther wil .I. firste amenden and be-gynne.

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 87
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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