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

                                
                                     [6-text p 448] 
                                  
                                  Sche schal not passe twenty ȝeer certayn [folio 263a] 
                                
                                  Old fysch & ȝong flesch/ wolde I haue ful fayn
                                
                                  Bet is quod he a pyk than a pykerel
                                
                                  And bet than old bef is the tendere veel
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                                  I wil no weman / thretty ȝeer of age
                                
                                  It is but benestraw / & gret forage
                                
                                  And ek these olde wyuys god it wot
                                
                                  They cunne so meche craft on wadis boot
                                  Line 1424 
                                
                                  So meche broke harm whan hem leste
                                
                                  That with hem schulde I neuere lyue in reste
                                
                                  ffor sundery scolys make subtyl clerkys
                                
                                  Woman of manye scole half a clerk is
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                                  But serteynly a ȝong thyng may men gye
                                
                                  Ryght as men may warm wex with handis plye
                                
                                  Wherfore I sey ȝow pleynly in a clause
                                
                                  I wele noon old wyf han for this cause
                                  Line 1432 
                                
                                  ffor ȝif so were I hadde swich myschaunce
                                
                                  That I in hire ne coude haue no plesaunce
                                
                                  Thanne schulde [I] lede myn lyf in a-vouterye
                                
                                  And streyt to the deuyl whan I deye
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  Ne chyldere schulde I none vp-on hire gete
                                
                                  Ȝit were me leuere houndis haddyn me etyn
                                
                                  Than that myn erytage schulde falle
                                
                                  In straunge hand & this I telle ȝow alle
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  I dote not I wot the cause why
                                
                                  Men schulde wedde & ferthere more wot I
                                
                                  There spekyth manye a man of mariage
                                
                                  That wot no more of it than wot myn page
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  ffor whiche causis men schulde take a wyf
                                
                                  Sith he ne may nat liue chast his lyf
                                
                                  Tak hym a wyf with gret deuocioun
                                
                                  By cause of leful procreacioun
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                                  Of childere too thonour of god a-boue
                                
                                  And nat only / for paramour or loue
                                
                                  And for they schulde / lecherye eschue
                                
                                  And ȝilde here dette / whan þat it is dewe

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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 280
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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