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

[6-text p 221] in certeyn cas / & for certeyn Iuste causis [2453] I am al redy to schaunge myn conseylouris / ryȝt as thow wolt deuyse / [2454] the prouerbe seyth that for to do synne / is mannyssch / But certis to perseuere longe therinne; is werk of the deuyl [2455]

TO this centence answerede anon Dame prudence / & seyde // [2456] Examynyth quod sche ȝoure con|seyl / & lat vs se the whiche of hem han spokyn moost resonablely & taught ȝow best conseyl // [2457] And for as meche as the examynacioun is necessarie / lat vs begynne at the Surgens / & at the phisiciens / that fyrst spekyn in this matyere / [2458] I seye ȝow that the surgeens & phisiciens han seyd ȝow in ȝoure conseyl descretly as hem ouȝte / [2459] & in here space seydyn ful wysely / that to the offyse of hem aperteynyth to doon to euery wyȝt honour & profyt / & no wyȝt to anoyen [2460] & aftyr here craft to don greet diligence vnto the cure of hem whiche that they han in here gouern|aunce / [2461] And sire ryȝt as they han answerid wisely & discretly / [2462] ryȝt so rede I that they been heyly & souereynly gwerdounnyd for here noble speche / [2463] And ek for they schuldyn don the moore ententif besynesse in the curacioun of thyn doughtyr deere / [2464] for al be it so / that they been ȝoure frendis / therfore schal ȝe nat sufferyn; that they serve ȝow for naught [2465] but ȝe oughtyn rathere gwerdounnyn hem & schewyn hem ȝoure largesse / [2466] And as touchynge the prepocicioun whiche the phisiciounnys encresedyn in this cas / this is to seyne / [2467] that in maladyis / that on contrarye is war [folio 336a] chid by a-nothir contrarye / [2468] I wolde fayn knowyn how ȝe vndyrstonde thilke text / & what is ȝoure sentence. [2469] CErtis quod Melibeus I vndirstonde it in this wise / [2470] that ryȝt as they han don. a contrarye ryȝt so schulde I doon hem a-nothir / [2471] ffor ryȝt as they han vengede hem on me / & don me wrong; ryȝt so schal I wengyn me vp-on hem

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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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