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

[6-text p 586] He wol yow haten / mortally certeyn 313 Daun Salomon / as wise clerkes seyn Techeth a man / to kepen his tonge weel [folio 209b] But as I seyde / I am noght textueel 316 But nathelees / thus taughte me my dame My sone / thenk/ on the Crowe on goddes name My sone / keepe wel thy tonge / and keepe thy freend A wikked tonge / is worse than a feend 320 My sone / from a feend / men may hem blesse My sone / god of his endelees goodnesse Walled a tonge / with teeth and lippes eke ffor man sholde hym auyse / what he speeke 324 My sone / ful ofte / for to muche speche Hath many a man been spilt as clerkes teche But for litel speche / auysely Is no men shent . to speke generally 328 My sone / thy tonge sholdestow restreyne At alle tymes / but whan thou doost thy peyne To speke of god / in honour and preyere The firste vertu sone / if thou wolt leere 332 Is to restreyne / and kepe wel thy tonge Thus lerne children / whan þat they been yonge My sone / of muchel spekyng/ yuele auysed Ther lasse spekyng/ hadde ynough suffised 336 Comth muchel harm / thus was me toold and taught In muchel speche / synne wanteth naught Wostow / wher-of a rakel tonge serueth Right as a swerd / forkutteth and forkerueth 340 An Arm atwo / my deere sone right so A tonge / kutteth freendshipe al atwo A Iangler / is to god abhomynable Reed Salomon / so wys and honurable 344 Reed Dauid in hise psalmes / reed Senekke My sone spek nat but with thyn heed thou bekke Dissimule as thou were deef / if that thou heere A Iangler /. speke of perilous mateere 348
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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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