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

                                
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                                  Or for þat ilke man schold help oþer
                                
                                  In Meschef as a suster schal do a broþer
                                
                                  And leue in Chastite ful heuenly
                                
                                  Bot sires be ȝoure leue þat am nouht .I.
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                                  For god be þonke-it .I. dar make a-vaunt
                                
                                  .I. fele my lymes stark and sufficeant
                                
                                  To done al þat a man be-longeþ to do
                                
                                  .I. wote my seluen best what .I. may do
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                                  Thouhe .I. be hore as doþe a treie
                                
                                  þat blossomeþ ar þat þe fruyte y-waxe bue
                                
                                  A blossome tre is neiþer drie ne dede
                                
                                  .I. feel me nowhwhere hore bot on myn hede
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                                  Myne herte and my lymes buen as grene
                                
                                  As laurer þat þorwh. þe ȝere is seene
                                
                                  And seþen ȝe haue herd al myne entent
                                
                                  .I. prai ȝow to mi wil þat ȝe assent [folio 131b] 
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                                  Diuers men diuers him tolde
                                
                                  Off Mariages mony ensa[m]ples olde
                                
                                  Somme blamed it som preised it certeigne
                                
                                  Bot att þe last schortly for to seine
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                                  As al dai falleþ altercacione
                                
                                  Be-twex frendes in disputacione
                                
                                  There fel a strif be-twix his breþern tuo
                                
                                  Of whiche þat tone was cleped Placebo
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                                  Placebo seide O. Ianuer broþer
                                
                                  To ȝou tel .I. þis tale and to none oþere
                                
                                  Foll litel nede had ȝe my lorde so dere
                                
                                  Counsel to ax of any þat is here
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                                  Bot þat ȝe be oone so ful of sapience
                                
                                  þat ȝowe ne likeþ for ȝoure hihe prudence
                                
                                  To wayue fro þe worde of Salomone
                                
                                  This worde seide he vnto vs euerychone
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                                  Wirke al þinge be counseile þus seide he
                                
                                  And þan schal þou nouht repent þe
                                
                                  Bot þouhe þat Salomon spek suche a worde
                                
                                  Mine owen dere broþer and my lorde

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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 327
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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