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

                                
                                     [6-text p 449] 
                                  
                                  Or for þat ilk man schulde helpen oþer
                                
                                  In meschief as suster schal to þe broþer
                                
                                  And lyue in chastite ful heuenly
                                
                                  But sires by ȝour leue þat am not I
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                                  For by þanked I dar make auaunt
                                
                                  I fele my lemys stark and suffisaunt
                                
                                  To doon al þat a man bilongeth vnto
                                
                                  I wot my selue best what I may do
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                                  ¶ Though I be hoor I fare as doþ a tree [Nota] 
                                
                                  That blossemith er þat þe fruyt I-waxe be
                                
                                  A blossemy tre is neither drye ne deed
                                
                                  I fele me no-wher hoor but on myn heed
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                                  Myn herte and my lymes ben as greene.
                                
                                  As laurer þurgh þe ȝeer is for to seene [folio 136a] 
                                
                                  And synnes ȝe han herd al myn entent
                                
                                  I pray ȝow to my wille ȝe assent
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                                  Diuerse men diuersly him tolde
                                
                                  Of mariage many ensamples olde
                                
                                  Some blamed him some praised it certayn
                                
                                  But atte laste schortly for to sayn
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                                  As alday fallith altercacioun
                                
                                  Bitwixe frendes in despitesoun
                                
                                  Ther fel a strif bitwen his bretheren tuo [Nota] 
                                
                                  Of which þat oon was clepid Placebo
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                                  Iustinus soþly cleped was þat oþer
                                
                                  Placebo sayde .o. Ianuary broþer
                                
                                  Ful litel need had ȝe my lord so deere
                                
                                  Counseil to axe of eny þat is heere
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                                  But þat ȝe ben so ful of sapience
                                
                                  That ȝow ne likith for ȝour heigh prudence /
                                
                                  To wayue fro þe word of Salamon
                                
                                  This word said he vnto vs euerychoon
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                                  werk/ al þing by counsail þus sayd he /
                                
                                  And þanne schaltow nought repente þe
                                
                                  But þough þat Salamon speke such a word
                                
                                  Myn owne deere broþer and my lord

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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 308
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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