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

                                
                                     [6-text p 451] 
                                  
                                  To whome he ȝeue his londe oþer his catel
                                
                                  And seþins .I. auht avise me riht wel
                                
                                  To whom .I. ȝeue my good aweye fro me
                                
                                  Wele more .I. auht auyse [me parde]
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                                  To whome .I. ȝeue my body for alweie
                                
                                  .I. warne ȝowe wele it is no childes pleie
                                
                                  To take a vif wiþ-outen avisement
                                
                                  Men most enquere þis is my assent
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                                  Wheþer sche be wise and sobre oþere dronkenlewe
                                
                                  Oþere proude oþere vþerweie a schrewe
                                
                                  A chidistere oþere a wastour of þyne goode
                                
                                  Oþere riche oþere pouere oþere of maners woode
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                                  Al be it so þat no man finde schal
                                
                                  None in þis werlde þat trotteþ hole in al
                                
                                  Ne man ne beste suche as men deuise
                                
                                  Bot naþeles it auht ynouȝe suffise
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                                  Wiþ any wif if þat so were sche hadde
                                
                                  Mo goode þewes þan hir vices badde
                                
                                  And al þis askeþ leiser to enquere
                                
                                  For god it woote .I. haue weppet mony a tere
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                                  Ful priuely seþ þat .I. had a wif
                                
                                  Preiseþ who so wol a wedded mannes lif
                                
                                  Certein .I. finde it bot cost and care
                                
                                  And obseruaunces of al blisses bare
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                                  And ȝite god. wote my neihbours aboute
                                
                                  And namely of wemmen mony a route
                                
                                  Saine þat .I. haue þe most stedfast wif
                                
                                  And eke þe mekest oon þat beriþ lif
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                                  Bot .I. wote beste where wringeþ me my schoo [folio 132b] 
                                
                                  Ȝe maie for me riht as ȝoue likeþ doo
                                
                                  Aviseþ ȝowe ȝe bue a man of Age
                                
                                  Howe þat ȝe entren in to Mariage
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                                  And namely wiþ a ȝonge wif and a faire
                                
                                  Be him þat maad water erþe and ayre
                                
                                  The ȝongest man þat it in al þis route
                                
                                  Is besy ynowhe to bringe it aboute

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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 329
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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