Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

[6-text p 446] Sche seyth nat onys nay whan he seyth ye Do this seyth he al redy sere seyth sche O blysful ordere of wedlok precious Thow art so merye & ek so vertyuous 1348 And so comendit & apreuyd ek That euery man that halt hym worth a lek Vp-on hise bare kneis oghte al his lyf Thankyn his god that hym hath sent a wyf 1352 Or ellys preye to god hym for to fynde A wif to laste vn-to his lyuys ende ffor thanne his lyf is set in sekyrnesse He may not ben disseyuyd as I gesse 1356 So þat he werche aftyr his wyuys reed Thanne may he baldely beryn vp his heed They been so trewe & therwithal so wise ffor which ȝif þou wilt werkyn as the wyse 1360 Do alwey so as wemen wele þe reede Lo how that Iacob as these clerkys rede By good conseyl of his modyr Rebekke Bond the kidis skyn a-boutyn his nekke 1364 ffor which his faderis benyson he wan Lo Iudith as the story telle can By good conseyl sche godys peple kepte And slow hym Olefernus as he slepte 1368 Lo Abigayl bi good conseyl how sche Sauede hire husbonde / Naabal whan þat he Schulde a be slayn & loke Ester also By good conseyl deliuerede out of woo 1372 The peple of god / & made hym Mardoche To assure en-haunsede for to bee There nys no thyng In gre superlatyf As seyth senec. A-boue an humble wyf 1376 Suffere thyn wyuys tunge as catoun bit Sche schal comaunde & sche schal suffere it And ȝit sche wele obeye of curteysye [folio 262b] A wyf is kepere of thyn husbondrye 1380
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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) 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 K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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