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

                                
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                                  To euery wight þat wit and reson kan
                                
                                  Thus preiseth he yet the bountee of man
                                
                                  ¶ Amonges a thousand men / yet foond I oon
                                
                                  But of wommen alle / foond I noon
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                                  ¶ Thus seith the kyng þat knoweth youre wikkednesse
                                
                                  And Ihesus filius Syrak as I gesse
                                
                                  Ne speketh of yow / but seelde reuerence
                                
                                  A wylde fyr / and corrupt pestilence
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                                  So falle vp on youre bodyes yet to nyght
                                
                                  Ne se ye nat this honurable knyght
                                
                                  By cause allas / that he is blynd and old
                                
                                  His owene man / shal make hym Cokewold
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                                  Lo heere he sit the lechour in the tree
                                
                                  Now wol I graunten / of my magestee
                                
                                  Vn-to this olde blynde worthy knyght
                                
                                  That he shal haue ayeyn hise eyen syght
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                                  Whan þat his wyf/ wold doon hym vileynye
                                
                                  Thanne shal he knowen / al hire harlotrye
                                
                                  Bothe in repreue of hire / and othere mo [folio 117b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Ye shal quod Proserpyne / wol ye so?
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                                  Now by my moodres sires soule I swere
                                
                                  That I shal yeuen hire suffisant answere
                                
                                  And alle wommen after / for hir sake
                                
                                  That though they be / in any gilt ytake
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                                  With face boold / they shulle hem self excuse
                                
                                  And bere hem doun / that wolden hem accuse
                                
                                  ffor lakke of answere / noon of hem shal dyen
                                
                                  Al hadde man seyn a thyng with bothe hise eyen
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                                  Yit shul we wommen / visage it hardily
                                
                                  And wepe / and swere / and visage it subtilly
                                
                                  So þat ye men / shul been / as lewed as gees
                                
                                  What rekketh me / of youre Auctoritees
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                                  ¶ I woot wel / that this Iew / this Salomon
                                
                                  ffoond of vs wommen / fooles many oon
                                
                                  But though þat he ne foond / no good womman
                                
                                  Yet hath ther founde / many another man

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 305
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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