The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 343] 
                                  
                                  þou schalt not boþe þough þou were wood
                                
                                  Be maister of my body and my good
                                
                                  That oon þou schalt forgo maugre þin eyȝen
                                
                                  What helpeþ it on me enquere and spyen
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  I trowe þough þou woldest loke me in þi cheste
                                
                                  þou scholdest seie wyf go where þe leste
                                
                                  Take youre disporte I wol not leue no tales
                                
                                  I knowe ȝow for a good wyf dame Alis
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                                  We loue no man þat takeþ keepe or charge
                                
                                  Where þat we go we wole be at oure large
                                
                                  Of alle men blessed mote he be
                                
                                  The wise astrologien dann ptholome
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                                  That seiþ þis prouerbe in his almageste
                                
                                  Of alle men his wisdam is hyeste [folio 108b] 
                                
                                  That rekkeþ not who haþ þe world in hande
                                
                                  By þis prouerbe þou schalt wel vnderstande
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                                  haue þou ynough what þar þe rekke or kare
                                
                                  how meryly þat oþer folkes fare
                                
                                  ffor certes olde dotard by youre leue
                                
                                  ye schulle haue queynte right ynough at eue
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                                  he is to gret a nygard þat wol warne
                                
                                  A man to light a candel at his lantarne
                                
                                  he schal haue neuer þe lesse light/ parde
                                
                                  haue þou ynough þe þar not pleyne þe
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                                  þou seist also þat if þou make vs gay
                                
                                  Wiþ cloþing or with precious array
                                
                                  That it is peril of oure chastite
                                
                                  And ȝit with wordes þou most enforce me /
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                                  And seie þise wordes in þe apostels name
                                
                                  In habyt made with chastite and schame
                                
                                  ye wommen schulle apparaille you quod he/
                                
                                  And nat in tressed heer and gay perre
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                                  As perle ne wiþ golde ne cloþes riche
                                
                                  After þi texte ne after þi rubriche
                                
                                  I wol not werke as mochil as a gnatt
                                
                                  þou saydest als þat I was like a catt

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 222
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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