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

                                
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                                  Wiþ-inne þin hous ne bue þou no lyone
                                
                                  To þi subgettes done none oppressione
                                
                                  Ne maake þine acqueintance not for to flie
                                
                                  And Thomas ȝitt eft-sonenes saie .I. þe
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                                  Be war for hire þat in þi bosome slepeþ
                                
                                  Be war of þe serpent þat so slely crepeþ
                                
                                  Vnder þe gras þat stingeþ sotely
                                
                                  Be war my sonne and herken paciently
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                                  þat .xx.M. men haue lost her liues
                                
                                  For þat þei haue bu spitous to her wives
                                
                                  Nowe seþþe þus ȝe haue so holy and so meke a wif
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                                  What nedeþ [[þ not complete]]  ȝow thomas to maken strif
                                
                                  Ther is .I.-wis no serpent so cruel
                                
                                  Whan men trede on his taile nouȝt half so fell
                                
                                  As womman is whan sche haþ cauht an yre
                                
                                  Vengaunce is þan al þat þei desire
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                                  Ire is a sinne on of þe grettest of seuen
                                
                                  Abhominable vnto god of heuen/
                                
                                  And to him self it is a destruccion
                                
                                  This euery lewed vicarie or parson
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                                  Can sey howe ire engendereþ homicide [folio 111a] 
                                
                                  Ire in soþe is executor of pride
                                
                                  .I. couþe of ire seie so muche sorwe
                                
                                  Mi tale schold last to tomorwe
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                                  And þer-for .I. praie god daie and nyht
                                
                                  An yrus man send him litel miht
                                
                                  It is grete harme and certes grete Pyte
                                
                                  To sett an Irus man in hihe degre
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                                  Whilom þer was an Irrous potestate
                                
                                  As seiþ Senec duringe his astate
                                
                                  Vpon a daie out riden knyhtes tuo
                                
                                  And as fortune wolde it were so
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                                  That one of hem cam home þat oþere nouht
                                
                                  Anone þe knyht to-for þe Iuge is brouht
                                
                                  And seide þus þou hast þi felaw sleine
                                
                                  For whiche .I. deme þe to deþ certeine

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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 272
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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