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

                                
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                                  Ande eke þare was sum time a clerke in rome
                                
                                  A Cardinale þat hiht seint Ierome
                                
                                  þat maad a boke aȝeine Iouynyane
                                
                                  In whiche booke eke þer was torculane
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                                  Crisippus Trecula and helowys
                                
                                  That was Abbas nouȝt fer fro parische
                                
                                  And eke þe paraboles of Salomon
                                
                                  Ovydes arte and bokes many one
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                                  And al þis were boundene in o velome
                                
                                  And euery nyht and day was his custome
                                
                                  Whan he had leysere and vacacione
                                
                                  frome oþer werldly occupacione
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                                  To reden on þis boke of wikked wyues
                                
                                  He knewe of hem mo legentez and liues
                                
                                  Than bue of goode wyues in þe bible
                                
                                  For trusteþ wele it is an impossible
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                                  þat any clerke wil speken good of wyves
                                
                                  Bot if it bue of holy seintes lyues
                                
                                  Ne of none oþer womman neuere þe mo
                                
                                  Who peynted þe lyon tel me who
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                                  Be god if wemmen had wreten stories
                                
                                  As clerkes haue wiþ-inne hire oratories
                                
                                  Thei wold haue wreten of men more wikkednesse
                                
                                  þan al þe mark of Adam maie redresse
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                                  The childern of Mercure and Venus
                                
                                  Bene in hire wirkeinge contrarius
                                
                                  Mercurie loue wisdome and sciens
                                
                                  And venus loueþ riote and dispens
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                                  And for hir diuers disposicion
                                
                                  Sche falleþ in oþer exaltacion.
                                
                                  And þus godde wote Mercurie is desolate [folio 95b] 
                                
                                  In piscis where venus is exaltate
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                                  And venus falleþ þere Mercurie is reised
                                
                                  Þere-for no womman of no man is preised
                                
                                  Þe clerke whan he is olde and maie nouht do
                                
                                  Of venus werkes worþe his olde scho

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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 232
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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