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

                                
                                     [6-text p 471] 
                                  
                                  To euery wiht þat witte and reson can
                                
                                  þus preiseþ he ȝitte þe bounte of man
                                
                                  Amonge a .M. men ȝit fonde .I. one
                                
                                  Bot of al wemmen fonde .I. neuer none
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                                  þus seiþe þe kinge þat knoweþ ȝoure wikkednesse
                                
                                  And ihesus filius Syrak as .I. gesse
                                
                                  Ne spekeþ of ȝowe but seldyn reuerence
                                
                                  A wilde fire a corrupt pestilence
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                                  So fal vpon ȝoure bodies ȝit to nyht
                                
                                  Ne see nouht þis honurable knyht
                                
                                  Because alas þat he is blinde and olde
                                
                                  His owen man schal make him cokewolde
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                                  Loo where he sitte þe lichoure in þe tree
                                
                                  Nowe wil .I. graunte of my Maiestee
                                
                                  Vnto þis olde blinde worþi knyht
                                
                                  þat he schal haue aȝeine his eyȝen siht
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                                  Whan þat his wif wold done him velanye
                                
                                  Than schal he knowe al her harlotrye
                                
                                  Boþe in repreue of hire and oþere mo
                                
                                  Ȝe schal quod Procerpine and wil ȝe soo
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                                  Nowe be my Moders sire soule .I. swere
                                
                                  þat .I. schal ȝeue hire sufficeant ansewere
                                
                                  And alle wemmen after for ȝoure saake
                                
                                  þat þouhe þei buen in any gilte ytake
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                                  Wiþ face bolde þei schollen hem self excuse
                                
                                  And bere hem doune þat wolde hem accuse
                                
                                  For lakke of ansewere non of hem schollen deyen
                                
                                  Al had ȝe seihe a þinge wiþ boþ ȝoure eyȝen.
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                                  Ȝit schollon we so visage it hit hardelye [folio 141a] 
                                
                                  And wepe and swere and chide subtellye
                                
                                  þat ȝe schol buen as lewde as arne gese
                                
                                  What rekkeþ me of ȝoure auctoritees
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                                  .I. wote wele þis Iewe þis Salomone
                                
                                  Fande of vs wemmen fules many one
                                
                                  Bot þouhe þat he fonde no goode womman
                                
                                  There haþe he founde mony anoþere man

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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 349
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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