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

[6-text p 209] folk than hym self [2263] And syre that theere hath been ful manye a good woman; may lyghtely been preuyd / [2264] for certys / sere oure lord Ihesu crist / wolde neuere han descendit to been born of a woman; ȝif alle wemen hadde been wekke / [2265] And aftyr that for the greete bounte / that is in oure lord Ihesu crist / whan he was resyn from deth to lyue / aperede rathere to a woman than to hise apostellis / [2266] And thogh that salomon seyth that he ne fond neuere woman good; it ne folwyth nat therfore that alle wemen been wikke / [2267] for thow that he ne fond no good woman; certys manye a nothir man hat foundyn manye a woman ful good & trewe [2268] ¶ Or ellis the entent of Salomon perauenture was this / that as in souerein bounte he fond no woman / [2269] this is to seyne that theere is no wyȝt that hath souereyn bountee saue god a-lone / as he hym self recordyth in hise Euaun|gelie [2270] for theere is no cryature so good; that he ne wanthith sumwhat of the perfeccioun of god that is his makere [2271] ¶ Youre thredde resoun is this / ȝe seyn þat ȝif ȝe gouerne ȝow by myn conseyl; it schulde seme that ȝe hadde ȝeue me the maystrye & the lordschepe ouyr ȝoure persone / [2272] Sire saue ȝoure grace / it is nat so / for if it so were that no man schulde been conseyled but only of hem that hadde lordschepe & maystrye of his persone; men wolde nat been conseyled / so ofte / [2273] for sothly thilke man that axsith conseyl of a purpos / ȝit hath he fre choys whether he wele werke by that conseyl / or noon [2274] ¶ And [folio 330b] as to ȝoure forte resoun / there ȝe seyen that the Iangelerye of women can hide thyngis that they wot nought As ho sey that a woman can not hyde that sche wot [2275] Sire these wordys been vndyr|stonde / of women that been Iangleressis / & wekkede / [2276] of whiche wemen men seyn / that thre thyngis dryuyn a man out of his hous / that is to seyne smoke / droppynge of reyn & wikkede wyuys / [2277] And
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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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