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

                                
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                                  And nouȝt to be constreigned as a þral
                                
                                  And so do men if I þe soþe seye schal [folio 160a] 
                                
                                  loke who þat is most pacient in loue /
                                
                                  he is at his auauntage aboue
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                                  Pacience is an heih vertu certeyn
                                
                                  ffor it venquissheþ as þese clerkes seyn
                                
                                  Thynges þat Rigor schulde neuer atteigne
                                
                                  ffor euery word men may nouȝt chyde ne pleyne /
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                                  lerneþ to suffre or elles so mote I gon
                                
                                  ȝe schullen it lerne wheþer ȝe wole or non
                                
                                  ffor in þis worlde certeyn no wight nys /
                                
                                  þat he ne doþ or saiþ sumtyme amys /
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                                  Or oþir siknesse oþer constillacion
                                
                                  Wyn wo or chaungyng of complexion
                                
                                  Causeþ ful often to don amys oþer speken
                                
                                  On euery wrong men may nouȝt ben awreken
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                                  After þe tyme moste be temperaunce
                                
                                  To euery wight þat can no gouernance /
                                
                                  And þerfore haþ þis worþy wise knight
                                
                                  To lyue in ese suffraunce hire behight
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                                  And sche to him ful wisly gan to swere
                                
                                  That neuer schulde þer be defaute in here /
                                
                                  here may men sen an humble wyse acord
                                
                                  Thus haþ sche take hir seruant and hire lord
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                                  Seruaunt in loue and lord in mariage
                                
                                  Then was he boþe in lordschipe and seruage
                                
                                  Seruage nay but in lordschipe aboue
                                
                                  Seþyns þat he haþ boþe his lady and his loue
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                                  his lady certes and his wyf also
                                
                                  The whiche þat lawe of loue acordeþ þer to
                                
                                  And whan he was in þis prosperite
                                
                                  home wiþ his wyf he goþ to his cuntre
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                                  Nouȝt fer fro pedmark þer as his dwellyng was
                                
                                  Wher as he lyueþ in blisse and in solas
                                
                                  Who couþe telle but he hadde wedded be
                                
                                  þe ioye þe ese and þe prosperite /

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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 353
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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