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

                                
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                                  Sche seiþ nouht ones naie whan he seiþe ȝe
                                
                                  Doþ þis saiþe he Alredy sire seiþ sche
                                
                                  O blisful order. o wedlok precious
                                
                                  þou ert so mery and eke so vertuous
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                                  And so commended and approued eke
                                
                                  þat euery mon þat holdeþ him worþe a leke
                                
                                  Vpon his bare knees ouht al his lif
                                
                                  Thonken his god þat him haþ sente a wif
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                                  Oþire praie god him for to sende
                                
                                  A wif to last vnto his lyues ende
                                
                                  For þan his lif is sett in sekurnesse
                                
                                  He may nouhte be deceiued as .I. gesse
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                                  So þat he worche after his wyues rede
                                
                                  þan maie he boldely bere vp his hede
                                
                                  þei buen so trewe and so wise
                                
                                  For wiche if þou wilt worchen as þe wise
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                                  Do al waie so as þe womman wil þe reede
                                
                                  Lo howe þat Iacob as þes clerkes rede
                                
                                  Be goode Counsel of his moder Rebek
                                
                                  Bande þe kidde scynne aboute his nek
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                                  For whiche his faders benison he wan
                                
                                  Lo Iudith as þe storie eke tel can
                                
                                  Be wise Counsel sche goddes peple kept [[t rubbed out]] 
                                
                                  And slowhe him Olofernus while he slept
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                                  Lo howe Abigaile be gode counsel howe þat sche
                                
                                  Saued hir husbond nabal whan þat he
                                
                                  Schold haue be sleyne and Loke after al so
                                
                                  Be goode counsel deliuerd out of wo
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                                  The peple of god and made hem mardothe
                                
                                  Of Assure enchaunced for to be
                                
                                  There nes noþinge in [[? in in a later hand]]  gre superlatiff
                                
                                  As seiþ Senec aboue an humble wif
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                                  Suffurþ þi wiues tonge as Caton bitte
                                
                                  Sche schal commande and þou schalt suffur it
                                
                                  And ȝute sche will obeie of Curtesye
                                
                                  A wif is keper of þin husbondrie

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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 324
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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