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

                                
                                     [6-text p 305] 
                                  
                                  And of hir owen vertue vnconstreyned
                                
                                  Sche haþe ful oft time hire seke feyned
                                
                                  For þat sche wolde flye þe companye
                                
                                  Where likly was to treten of folye
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                                  As es att festes reueles and att daunces
                                
                                  þat bene occasione of dalyaunces
                                
                                  Suche þinges maken childern for to bee
                                
                                  To sone Ripe and bolde as men maie see
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                                  Whiche is ful perilous and haþe be ȝore
                                
                                  For al to sone maie sche leren lore
                                
                                  Of boldenesse whan sche is a wyfe
                                
                                  And ȝe maistresses in ȝoure olde life
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                                  þat lordes douhters haue in gouernance
                                
                                  Ne takeþ of mi worde no displesance [folio 170b] 
                                
                                  Thinges þat bien set in gouernynges
                                
                                  Of lordes douhtres only for tuo þinges
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                                  Eyþer for ȝe han kepped ȝoure honeste
                                
                                  Or elles ȝe haue fall in frelte
                                
                                  And knowe wele ynowhe þe olde daunce
                                
                                  And konne forsaake fully meschaunce
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                                  For euere mo þer-fore for crist saak
                                
                                  Kepeþ wel þo þat ȝe vndertak
                                
                                  A þef of venison þat haþ for-laft
                                
                                  His lycorusnesse and al his þefes craft
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                                  Kan kepe a forest best [of] ony man
                                
                                  Nowe kepeþe hem wele for ȝe wele can
                                
                                  Lokeþ wele to no vice þat ȝe assent
                                
                                  Lest [ȝe] be dampned for ȝoure yuel entent
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                                  For who so doþe a traitour is certeine
                                
                                  And takeþ of þat þat .I. schal seine
                                
                                  Of al treson suffreine pestelence
                                
                                  Is whan a whight be-trayeþ Innocence
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                                  Ȝe faders and ȝe moders eke also
                                
                                  Þouhe ȝe haue childern be it on or mo
                                
                                  Ȝoure is þe charge of al her suffrance
                                
                                  Whiles þei bien vnder gouernance

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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 428
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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