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

                                
                                     [6-text p 454] 
                                  
                                  For þan he seide his spirte was att ese
                                
                                  þan is quod he noþinge may me displese
                                
                                  Saue o þinge prikeþ in my conscience
                                
                                  The whiche .I. wil reherce in ȝoure presence
                                  Line 1636 
                                
                                  .I. haue herd saie ful ȝare agoo [folio 133b] 
                                
                                  There maie no man haue parfite blisses tuoo
                                
                                  This is to seie in erþe and eke in heuen
                                
                                  For þouhe he kepped him fro þe sinnes seuen
                                  Line 1640 
                                
                                  And eke for euery braunche of þilke þree
                                
                                  Ȝite is þere so parfite prosperite
                                
                                  And so grete ese and luste in mariage
                                
                                  Þat euer .y. am agast noue in myn age
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                                  Þat .I. schal lede nowe so mery a lyf here
                                
                                  [So delycat / wyth-outen woo and stryf
                                
                                  That y shal haue myn heuene / in erthe heer [Addit. MS 5140 folio 155a] ] [Not in Sloane 1685, leaf 92, back; or Harl. 1758, leaf 80, back; or Harl. 7333, leaf 70, bk; or Sloane 1686, leaf 182; or Reg. 18 C 2, leaf 95, back]] 
                                
                                  For seþ þat verrei heuen is bouht so dere
                                
                                  Wiþ tribulacione and wiþ grete penance
                                
                                  How scholde .I. leue in suche plesance
                                
                                  As al wedded men doþe wiþ her wives
                                
                                  Com to þe blisse þere caste eterne on lyue is
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                                  This is my drede and ȝe my breþerne tweie
                                
                                  Assoileþe me þis question .I. ȝowe preie
                                
                                  Iustinus whiche þat hated his foly
                                
                                  Anseweringe anone riht in his Iaperye
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                                  And for he wolde his longe tale abrugge
                                
                                  He wolde none auctorite alegge
                                
                                  Bot seide sire so þere bue none obstacle
                                
                                  Oþere þan þis god of hihe meracle
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                                  And of his mercy maie so for ȝoue worche
                                
                                  þat ar ȝe haue ȝoure ȝiftes of holi churche
                                
                                  Ȝe maie repent of wedded mannes lif
                                
                                  In whiche ȝe seine þere nys neiþer woo ne strif
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                                  And elles god for-bede bot if he sent
                                
                                  A wedded man grace him to repent
                                
                                  Wel often raþer þan a sengel man
                                
                                  And þere-for sir þe best rede .I. kan

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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 332
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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