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

                                
                                     [6-text p 448] 
                                  
                                  Sche schal nouht passe .xvj. ȝere certeigne
                                
                                  Olde flesshe and ȝonge flesshe þat wolde .I. haue ful feine
                                
                                  Bet is quod he a pike þan a pikerele
                                
                                  And better þan olde bufe is tendre vele
                                  Line 1420 
                                
                                  .I. wil no womman .xx. ȝere of age
                                
                                  It nes bot benestrawe. and grete forage
                                
                                  And eke þis olde wedowes god it wote
                                
                                  þei kon so muche craft on wades bote
                                  Line 1424 
                                
                                  So mechil broken harme whan þat hem lest
                                
                                  Þat wiþe hem schold .I. neuere leue in rest [folio 131a] 
                                
                                  For sondre scoles makeþ soubstile clerkes
                                
                                  Wemmen of mony a scole halue a clerke is
                                  Line 1428 
                                
                                  Bot certeynly a ȝonge þinge maie me guye
                                
                                  Riht as men maie warme wex wiþ hondes to plie
                                
                                  Where-for .I. seie ȝowe pleynly in clause
                                
                                  .I. wil none olde wif for þis cause
                                  Line 1432 
                                
                                  For if so weer if .I. hadde so meschaunce
                                
                                  That .I. in hire couþe haue [no] plesance
                                
                                  Than scholde .I. lede my lyf in adultrie
                                
                                  And so strike to þe deuel whan .I. deie
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  Ne chil scholde .I. none vpon hir geten
                                
                                  Ȝit were me leuer houndes had me eten
                                
                                  þat þat my heritage schold fal
                                
                                  In straunge hande and þus .I. tel ȝowe al
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  .I. doute nouht .I. wote þe cause whye
                                
                                  Men schold wedde and forþer more wote .I.
                                
                                  Ther spekeþ mony men of Mariage
                                
                                  That wote no more of it þan wote my page
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                                  For whiche cause men schold tak a wif
                                
                                  If he maie nouht chast be be his lif
                                
                                  Tak him a wif wiþ grete deuociōn
                                
                                  Be cause of leueful procreaciōn
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                                  Of Childer to þe honour of god aboue
                                
                                  And not onely for paramour and for loue
                                
                                  And for þei scholde lychery eschewe
                                
                                  And ȝelde her dettes whiles þat it is newe

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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 326
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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