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

                                
                                     [6-text p 445] 
                                  
                                  Bot take no kepe of al such vanite
                                
                                  Defye Theofrast and herkeneþ me
                                
                                  ¶ A wif is goddes ȝift verraily
                                
                                  Al oþer maner ȝiftes hardely
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                                  As landes rentes pasture or comune
                                
                                  Oþer eyþer ȝiftes þat bien mebles of fortune
                                
                                  þat passen as a schadowe on a wal
                                
                                  Bot drede nouht if pleinly speke I. schal
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                                  A wif wil last and in þine house endure
                                
                                  Wel langer þan þe list endure
                                
                                  Mariage is a ful grete sacrament
                                
                                  He whiche haþ no wif .I. holde him schent
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                                  He leueþ helples and is al desolate
                                
                                  .I. speke of folke in seculere astate
                                
                                  And herken whi .I. seie nouht þis for nouht
                                
                                  þe womman is for mannes helpe I-wrouht
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                                  þe hihe god whan he had Adam maked
                                
                                  And sauhe him a-lone b[e]ly nakeded
                                
                                  God of his grete goodnesse seide he þan
                                
                                  Latt vs nowe make an helpe to þis man
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                                  .I.-like to him selfe and þat he maade Eue
                                
                                  Here maie ȝe see and here be preue
                                
                                  Þat wif is mannes help and comforte
                                
                                  His paradise terestre and his disporte
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                                  So buxum and so vertuus is sche
                                
                                  þei moste nedes leue in vnite
                                
                                  O flesche and o blode as .I. gesse
                                
                                  Ne haþe bot on herte in wele and in destresse
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                                  A wif a seinte mare benedicite
                                
                                  Howe myhte a man haue any aduersite
                                
                                  þat haþ a wif certes .I. can nouht seye
                                
                                  The blisse þat is be-tuex hem tueye
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                                  Þere maie no tunge tel or hert þinke.
                                
                                  If he be pouere Sche helpeþ him to swynke [folio 130a] 
                                
                                  Sche kepeþ his gode and wasteþ neuer a dele
                                
                                  And al þat hire husbond lust hire lykeþ wele

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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 323
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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