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

                                
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                                  So wisly god my soule bringe att rest
                                
                                  .I. holde ȝoure owen consel is þe best
                                
                                  For broþer myne of me take þis motif
                                
                                  .I. haue nowe bue a court man al my lif
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                                  And god wote þouhe .I. vnworþi be
                                
                                  .I. haue stande in ful grete degre
                                
                                  Abouten lordes in ful grete astate
                                
                                  Ȝit hadde .I. neuer wiþ none of hem at bate
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                                  .I. neuer hem contraried trewly
                                
                                  .I. wote wele þat mi lorde can more þan .I.
                                
                                  What þat he seiþe .I. holde it ferme and stable
                                
                                  .I. seide þe same or elles þinge semblable
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                                  A fful grete fole is any counselloure
                                
                                  þat seruith any lorde of hihe honoure
                                
                                  þat dar presume or ones þinken it
                                
                                  þat is counsel schol pas his lordes witte
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                                  Nay lordes ben no foles be my faie
                                
                                  Ȝe haue ȝoure selfe spoken here to-daie
                                
                                  So hihe sentence so holy and so wele
                                
                                  þat .I. consent and conferme euery dele
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                                  Ȝoure wordez al and ȝoure opynyoun
                                
                                  Be god þer nys no man in al þis toune
                                
                                  Ne in Itaile couþe bette haue saide [folio 132a] 
                                
                                  Crist haldeþ him of þis ful wele apaied
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                                  And trewly . it is an hihe corage
                                
                                  Of any man þat stoupin in his age
                                
                                  To tak a ȝonge wif be my fader kinne
                                
                                  Ȝoure herte hongeþ vpon a Ioly pinne.
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                                  Doþ nowe in þis matier riht as ȝowe leste
                                
                                  For finaly .I. halde it for þe best
                                
                                  ¶ Iustinus þat ay still satt and herde
                                
                                  He riht on þis wise to placebo he ansewarde
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                                  Nowe broþer myne be pacient .I. praie
                                
                                  Seþins ȝe haue seide and herkeneþ whatt .I. saie
                                
                                  Senec amonge oþere wordes wise
                                
                                  Seiþe þat a man ouht him riht wele avise

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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 328
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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