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

                                
                                     [6-text p 305] 
                                  
                                  And of hir oughne vertu vnconstreigned
                                
                                  Sche haþ ful ofte tyme hire seek y-feyned
                                
                                  For þat sche wolde fleen þe companye
                                
                                  wher likly was to treten of folye
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                                  As is at festes reueles and at daunces
                                
                                  That ben occasiouns of daliaunces
                                
                                  Such þinges maken children for to be /
                                
                                  To soone rype and bold . as men may se / [folio 182b] 
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                                  which is ful perilous and haþ ben ȝore
                                
                                  For al to soone may sche lerne lore
                                
                                  Of boldenesse whan sche is a wyf
                                
                                  And ȝe maystresses in ȝoure olde lyf
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                                  That lordes doughtres han in gouernaunce
                                
                                  Ne takeþ of my word no displesaunce /
                                
                                  Thinges þat ben set in gouernynges
                                
                                  Of lordes douȝtres oonly for tuo þinges /
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                                  Ouþer for ȝe han kept ȝour honeste
                                
                                  Oþer elles for ȝe han falle in frelete
                                
                                  And knowe wel y-nough þe olde daunce
                                
                                  And conne forsake fully meschaunce
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                                  For euermo þerfore for cristes sake /
                                
                                  kepeþ wel þo þat ȝe vndertake
                                
                                  A þeof of venesoun þat haþ forlaft
                                
                                  his licorousnesse and al his theues craft
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                                  Can kepe a forest best of eny man
                                
                                  Now kepe hir wel for and ȝe wil ȝe can
                                
                                  loke wel to no vice ȝe assent
                                
                                  lest ȝe be dampned for ȝour wikked entent
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                                  For who-so doþ a traytour is certayn
                                
                                  And takeþ keep of þat þat sche schal sayn
                                
                                  Of al tresoun souereyn pestilence
                                
                                  Is whan a wight bytrayeth Innocence
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                                  Ȝe fadres and ȝe modres eek also
                                
                                  Though ȝe han children be it oon or mo
                                
                                  Ȝoure is þe charge of al her sufferaunce
                                
                                  whiles þay be vnder ȝour gouernaunce /

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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 417
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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