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

                                
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                                  To lerne what þing wommen louen most
                                
                                  But he ne couþe arryuen in no cost
                                
                                  wher as he mighte fynde þis matiere
                                
                                  To þese þinges accordyng in fere
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                                  Somme sayden womme louen best richesse
                                
                                  Somme sayde honour and some sayde iolynesse
                                
                                  Somme sayde riche array some sayden lust on bedde
                                
                                  And ofte tyme to be wydow and wedde
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                                  Somme sayden oure herte is most I-eased
                                
                                  whan we ben y-flaterid and y-pleased
                                
                                  He goþ ful neigh þe soth I wil not lye
                                
                                  A man schal wynne vs best wiþ flaterye
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                                  And with attendaunce and busynesse [folio 98b] 
                                
                                  Ben we y-limed boþe more and lesse /
                                
                                  And somme sayen þat we louen best
                                
                                  For to be fre and to doon as vs lest
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                                  And þat no man repreue vs of oure vice
                                
                                  But say þat we ben wys and no þing nyce
                                
                                  For trewely þer is noon of vs alle
                                
                                  If eny wight wold claw vs on þe galle /
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                                  That we nyl like for he saith vs soþ
                                
                                  Assay and he schal fynd it þat so doþ
                                
                                  For be we neuer so vicious wiþinne
                                
                                  we schuln be holde wys and clene of synne
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                                  And somme sayn þat gret delit han we
                                
                                  For to be holden stabil and secre /
                                
                                  And in oon purpos stedfastly to duelle /
                                
                                  And nought bywreye þing þat men vs telle /
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                                  But þat tale is not . worth a rakes stele
                                
                                  Par dy we wymmen . can right no þing hele
                                
                                  witnes on myda wil ȝe here þe tale /
                                
                                  Ouyd among his oþer þinges smale
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                                  Sayde Myda had . vnder his lange heris
                                
                                  Growyng vpon his heed tuo asses eeris
                                
                                  The whiche vice he hid as he best might
                                
                                  Ful subtilly fro euery mannes sight

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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 221
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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