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

                                
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                                  Wel may the sike man / biwaille and wepe
                                
                                  Ther as ther is no wyf/ the hous to kepe
                                
                                  I warne thee / if wisly thow wolt wirche [¶ Apostolus Paulus Ad Ephesianos // Diligite vxores vestras sicut christus dilexit ecclesiam &cetera.] 
                                
                                  Loue wel thy wyf/ as Crist loued his chirche [Apostolus // Ita viri debent diligere vxores suas vt corpora sua / quia qui suam vxorem diligit se ipsum diligit/ nemo vnquam carnem suam odio habuit/ set nutrit & fouet eam / et ¶ postea / vnusquisque suam vxorem sicut ¶ se ipsum diligat.] 
                                
                                  If thow louest thy self / thow louest thy wif
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                                  No man hateth his flessh / but in his lyf/
                                
                                  He fostreth it and ther-fore bidde I thee
                                
                                  Cherisse thy wyf or thow shalt neuere thee
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                                  Housbonde and wyf what so men Iaye or pleye
                                
                                  Of worldly folk/ holden the siker weye
                                
                                  They been so knyt / ther may noon harm bityde
                                
                                  And namely / vp on the wyues syde
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                                  ffor which this Ianuarie / of whom I tolde
                                
                                  Considered hath / inwith his dayes olde
                                
                                  The lusty lyf / the vertuous quyete
                                
                                  That is in mariage / hony swete
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                                  And for his freendes / on a day he sente
                                
                                  To tellen hem / theffect of his entente
                                
                                  ¶ With face sad / this tale he hath hem told
                                
                                  He seyde freendes / I am hoor and old
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                                  And almoost god woot on my pittes brynke [folio 140a] 
                                
                                  Vp on my soule / som what moste I thynke
                                
                                  I haue my body / folily despended
                                
                                  Blissed be god / þat it shal been amended
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                                  ffor I wol be certeyn / a wedded man
                                
                                  And that anon / in al the haste I kan
                                
                                  Vn to som mayde / fair and tendre of age
                                
                                  I pray yow / shapeth for my mariage
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                                  Al sodeynly / for I wol nat abyde
                                
                                  And I wol fonde / tespien on my side
                                
                                  To whom I may / be wedded hastily
                                
                                  But for as muche / as ye been mo than I.
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                                  Ye shullen rather / swich a thing espien
                                
                                  Than .I / and where me beste were to allien
                                
                                  ¶ But o thyng warne I yow / my freendes deere
                                
                                  I wol noon old wyf han / in no manere

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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 320
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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