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

[6-text p 670] honeste and ben attempre of hir arraye / I wot wel that thei sholde sette her entente to please her hous|bondes but nat bi her quayntes of Arraye / [933] Seynt Ierome seith that wyfes that bene apparellid in selke in precious purpill ne mowe nat cloth hem in Ihesu Crist Loo what seith Seynt Iohn eeke in this mater [934] Seynt Gregory eeke seith that no wiht seekith precious arraye but onely for vayne glorye / the more to be honoured biforne the poeple [935] hit is a grete folye a woman to haue a fayre array outeward and in her silf foule inwarde // [936] A wiffe sholde eke be mesurable in lookyng and beryng and in langage and discrete in alle hir wordes and in hir dedes / [937] and above alle thynges she sholde love hir housbonde with alle hir herte and to hym to be trewe of her bodye / [938] so sholde an housbonde eke to his wiff / For sith that alle the bodye is the housbondes / so sholde hir herte bēn / or ellis bituexte hem too as in that is no parfite mariage / [939] Then shull ye vndir|stonde that for .iij. thynges a man and his wiff flesshly maye assemble / The first is the entente of engen|dure of childerne to the service of god / For certes that is the cause fynalle of matrimonye [940] Another cause is to yelden eueryche of hem to other the dette of her bodye / for neyther of hem hath power of his owne body / The .iijde. is for to eschewe lechere and vilanye / the iiij. is forsoth deedly synne / [941] As to the first hit is meritory / the secounde also as seith the decre / that she hath meryte of chastite that yeldith to her housbonde the dette of hir bodie / ye thouh hit be ayen her lykyng atte the lust of hir hert // [942] The .iij. manere is veniall synne and trewly skarsly may any of thes be withoute veniall synne for the corrupcion and the delite // [943] The .iiijth. maner is for to vndirstond as is thei that assembelith onely for Amorous love / and for none of the [Addit. MS. 5140 folio 351a] foreseide causes / but
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The Hengwrt 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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