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

[6-text p 210] swiche wommen saiþ Salamon þat he were bettre to dwelle in desert þan with a womman þat is ryetous [2278] And sire by ȝoure leue þat am nought I [2279] ¶ For ȝe haue ful ofte assayed my grete Cilence and my grete pacience and eek how wel þat he can huyde and hele þinges þat men oughten secrely to huyden [2280] ¶ and soþ as to ȝoure fifte reson wher as ȝe say þat in wikked coun|seil wommen venquyssheþ men ¶ God wot þilke reson stant heere in no stede [2281] ¶ For vnderstandeth now ȝe axeth counseil for to do wikkednes [2282] and if ȝe wolen werke wikkednesse and ȝoure wijf restreyneþ þilke wikked purpos and ouercome ȝou by reson and by good counseil; [2283] certes ȝoure wyf oughte raþer to be preysed þen to be blamed [2284] ¶ This scholde ȝe vnder|stande þe philosophre þat saiþ In wicked counseil wommen venquysshen here housebondes [2285] ¶ and þere as ȝe blamen alle wommen & here resons; I schal schewe ȝou by many ensamples þat many wommen han ben ful goode and ȝet ben and here counsel holsome and profitable [2286] ¶ eeke some men han sayde þat þe counselyng of wommen is eyþer to deere or elles to lytel of pris [2287] ¶ But al be it so þat ful [folio 221a] many womman is badde and here counseil vile & nouȝt worþ; ȝet han men founde many a good womman and ful discret and wys in counselyng // [2288] lo Iacob þurgh þe goode counseil of his moder Rebekka wan þe benyson of his fader and þe lordschipe ouer alle his breþeren . [2289] Iudith þurgh hire goode counseil delyuered þe Cite of Buphelye in which sche dwelte out of þe lande of Olyuerne þat hadde it al byseged and wolde han al destruyet it [2290] ¶ Abegayle delyuered Nabal hir housbonde fro Dauid þe king þat wolde han slayn him and appaysede þe yre of þe king by hire witte and by hire goode counseil|yng [2291] ¶¶ Ester by hire counceil enchaunced gretly þe poeple of god in þe Regne of Assueres þe king [2292] and þe same bounte. in good counseiling of
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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