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

                                
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                                  To whom he ȝeuyth his lond or his catel
                                
                                  And syn I ouȝte a-vise me ryȝt wel
                                
                                  To whom I ȝeue myn good a-wey fro me
                                
                                  Weel more I ouȝte avisede be
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                                  To whom I ȝeue myn body for alwey
                                
                                  I warne ȝow weel it is no childys pley
                                
                                  To take a wif with-oute a-vysement [folio 264b] 
                                
                                  Meen muste enquyre this is myn assent
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                                  Wher sche be wys & sobere or dronkelewe
                                
                                  Or proud or othere weyis a schrewe
                                
                                  A chidystere or wastouur of thyn good
                                
                                  Or ryche or pore or ellis mannyssch wood
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                                  Al be it so that no man fyndyn schal
                                
                                  Noon in this world that trottyth hool in al
                                
                                  Ne man ne beste whiche as men coude deuyse
                                
                                  But nathe-lees it oghte I-nough suffise
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                                  With ony wyf ȝif so were that sche hadde
                                
                                  Moo thewys goode / than / vicis badde
                                
                                  And al this askyth leyser for tenqueere
                                
                                  ffor god it wot I haue wepte manye a tere
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                                  fful priuyly syn that I hadde a wyf
                                
                                  Preyso ho so wole a weddede manys lyf
                                
                                  Certeyn I fynde it but cost & care
                                
                                  And obseruancis of alle blyssis bare
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                                  And ȝit god wot myne neighe-bouris a-boute
                                
                                  And namely of women manye a route
                                
                                  Seyn that I haue the moste stedefast wyf
                                
                                  And ek the mekeste on that beryth lyf
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                                  But I wot best where wryngeth me myn scho
                                
                                  Ye mowe for ryght as ȝow leste do
                                
                                  A-viseth ȝow ȝe been a man of age
                                
                                  How that ȝe enteryn / in-to a maryage
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                                  And namely with a ȝyng wif. & a fayr
                                
                                  By hym that maade watyr erthe & ayr
                                
                                  The ȝyngeste man that is in al this route
                                
                                  Is bisy I-nogh to bryngyn it a-boute

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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 283
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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