The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 445] 
                                  
                                  But takyth no kep of alle swich vanytee
                                
                                  Defye Theofraste & herke me
                                
                                  A wyf is godys ȝifte verrayly
                                
                                  Alle oþere manere ȝiftys hardyly
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                                  As londys [[first lordys]]  rentys / pasture or comune
                                
                                  Or meoblys alle been ȝiftys of fortune
                                
                                  That passyn / as a schadewe vp on a wal
                                
                                  But dredles if pleynly speke I schal
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                                  A wyf wele laste & in thyn hous endure
                                
                                  Weel lengere than the lyste parauenture
                                
                                  Maryage is a ful gret sakrement
                                
                                  He which that hath no wyf I helde hym schent
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                                  He lyuyth helpeles & al desolat
                                
                                  I speke of folk in seculeer estat
                                
                                  And herke why I seye nat this for noght
                                
                                  That weman is for manys helpe I-wrought
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                                  The heye god [[first good]]  whan he badde adam makyd
                                
                                  And say hym al a-lone bely nakyd /
                                
                                  God of his greete goodnesse seyde than
                                
                                  Lat vs now make an helpe vn-to this man
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                                  Lyk to hym self & thanne he made hym Eue
                                
                                  Heere may ȝe se & [[erasure]]  here may ȝe preue
                                
                                  That wif is manys helpe & his confort
                                
                                  His paradys terestre / & his desport
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                                  So buxsum & so vertevous is sche
                                
                                  They muste nedis liue in vnite
                                
                                  On flesch they been & on blood as I gesse
                                
                                  Hath but oon herte / in wele & in destresse
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                                  A wif a seynte Marie benedicite
                                
                                  How myȝte a man han ony aduersite
                                
                                  That hath a wif sertis I can not seye
                                
                                  The blysse that is be-twixe hem tweye
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                                  Ther may non tunge telle nor herte thynke [folio 262a] 
                                
                                  ȝif he be pore sche helpith hym to swynke
                                
                                  Sche kepith his good / & wastyth neuere a del
                                
                                  Al that hire husbonde luste hire likyth weel

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 277
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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