The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 343] 
                                  
                                  Thow schalt not bothe þough þou were wood
                                
                                  Be maister of my body and of my good
                                
                                  That oon þou schalt for-go maugre þin yen
                                
                                  what helpeth it on me tenqueren or espien
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                                  I trowe þou woldest lokke me in þy chest
                                
                                  Thou scholdist say . wif go wher þe lest
                                
                                  Take ȝoure disport I nyl lieue no talis
                                
                                  I know ȝow for a trewe wif dame alis
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                                  we loueþ no man þat takith keep or charge
                                
                                  wher þat we goon . we loue to be at large
                                
                                  ¶ Of alle men I-blessed most he be
                                
                                  Þe wise astrologe daun protholome
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                                  That saith þis prouerbe . in his almagest
                                
                                  Of alle men his wisedom is highest
                                
                                  Þat rekkith not who haþ þe world in honde
                                
                                  By þis prouerbe . þou schalt vnderstonde /
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                                  Have þou ynough what þar þe recch or care
                                
                                  How merily þat oþer folkes fare
                                
                                  For certes olde dotard wiþ ȝour leue
                                
                                  Ȝe schul haue queynte right ynough at eue
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                                  he is to gret a nygard þat wol werne [¶ nota] 
                                
                                  A man to light a candel at his lanterne
                                
                                  he schal haue neuer þe lasse light par de [folio 91a] 
                                
                                  Haue þou ynough þe thar not playne þe [¶ nota] 
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                                  Thou saist also þat if we make vs gay
                                
                                  with cloþing and with precious array
                                
                                  Þat it is peril of our chastite
                                
                                  And ȝit wiþ sorwe þou most enforce þe
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                                  And say þese wordes in thapostles name
                                
                                  In abyt maad wiþ chastite and schame
                                
                                  Ȝe wommen schuld apparayl ȝow quod he /
                                
                                  And nought wiþ tressed her . and gay perre /
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                                  As perles ne with golden cloþis riche
                                
                                  After þy text ne after þin rubriche
                                
                                  I wol nouȝt wirche as moche as a gnat
                                
                                  Thow saist þus þat I was lik a cat

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 203
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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