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

                                
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                                  And leden his lif in Ioy and solace
                                
                                  Where as þe bachellier singen alace
                                
                                  Whan þat þei finden any aduersite
                                
                                  In loue whiche þat is bot childes vanite
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                                  And trewli it sitte wele to be so
                                
                                  þat bachilliers haue ofte peine and woo
                                
                                  On brutel grounde þei boiled brutilnesse
                                
                                  þei finde frelte whan þei wene Sikernesse
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                                  þei leue bot as a burde or as a beste
                                
                                  In liberte and vnder none areste
                                
                                  þere as a wedded man in his astate
                                
                                  Leueþ . his lyf blisful and ordinate
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                                  Vnder þe ȝokke of mariage .ybounde
                                
                                  Wele may his herte In Ioy and blisse abounde
                                
                                  For who can be so buxum as a wife
                                
                                  Who is so trewe and eke so tentife
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                                  To kepe him seeke and hole as is his make
                                
                                  For wele or woo sche nyll nouht him for-sake
                                
                                  Sche is nouht werye him to loue and serue
                                
                                  þeih þat he lye beddred til he sterue
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                                  And ȝit somme clerkes seine it is nouht so
                                
                                  Of whiche Theofrast is one of þo
                                
                                  What fors þouhe Theofrast list lye
                                
                                  Ne take no wif quod he for husbandrie
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                                  As for to spare in householde þi despence
                                
                                  A trew seruant doþe more diligence [folio 129b] 
                                
                                  Thine goode to kepe þan þine owen wif
                                
                                  For sche wil claime half parte in al hire lif
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                                  And ȝif þat þou be seke so god me saue
                                
                                  Thyne verrey frendes or a trew knaue
                                
                                  Wil kepe þe bett þan sche þat waiteþ aie
                                
                                  After þi goode and haueþ do mony daie
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                                  [And if thou take a wife that to the is vn-trewe.
                                
                                  ffull ofte tyme it schall the rewe. [Harl. 1758 folio 77a]  [Not in Addit. 5140, leaf 149] ]
                                
                                  To þis entente and an .C. siþes wers
                                
                                  Writeþ þis man þere god his soule cors

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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 322
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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