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

                                
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                                  It liketh hem to be clene / in body and goost
                                
                                  Of myn estat ne wol I make no boost
                                
                                  ffor wel ye knowe / a lord in his houshold
                                
                                  Ne hath nat euery vessel / al of gold
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                                  Somme been of tree / and doon hir lord seruyse
                                
                                  God clepeth folk to hym / in sondry wyse
                                
                                  And euerich / hath of god a propre yifte
                                
                                  Som this / som that as hym liketh shifte
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                                  Virgynytee / is greet perfeccion
                                
                                  And continence eek with deuocion
                                
                                  But Crist that of perfeccion / is welle
                                
                                  Bad nat euery wight he sholde go selle
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                                  Al that he hadde / and yeue it to the poore
                                
                                  And in swich wise / folwe hym and his foore
                                
                                  He spak to hem / that wol lyue parfitly
                                
                                  And lordynges / by youre leue / that am nat I
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                                  I wol bistowe / the flour of al myn age
                                
                                  In thactes / and in fruyt of mariage
                                
                                  ¶ Telle me also / to what conclusion [questio!] 
                                
                                  Were membres maad / of generacion
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                                  And of so parfit wys a wight ywroght / [folio 59b] 
                                
                                  Trusteth right wel / they were nat maad for noght
                                
                                  Glose who so wole / and seye bothe vp and doun
                                
                                  That they were maad / for purgacioun
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                                  Of Vryne / and oure bothe thynges smale
                                
                                  Was eek to knowe / a femelle/ from a male
                                
                                  And for noon oother cause / sey ye / no?
                                
                                  Thexperience / woot wel it is noght so
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                                  So that the Clerkes / be nat with me wrothe
                                
                                  I sey this / þat they maked been for bothe
                                
                                  That is to seyn / for office and for ese
                                
                                  Of engendrure / ther we nat god displese
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                                  Why sholde men ellis / in hir bokes sette
                                
                                  That man shal yelde / to his wyf hir dette
                                
                                  Now wherwith / sholde he make his paiement
                                
                                  If he ne vsed / his sely Instrument

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 132
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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