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

[6-text p 223] haue him in his proteccion and ben his souerein helpynge at his neede [2492] ffor certes in þis world nys no wight þat may be counseled ne kepte sufficiauntly wiþ|outen þe kepyng of oure lord ihesus crist [2493] To þis sentence accordeþ þe prophete dauid þat saiþ. [2494] If god ne kepe þe cite in ydel wakeþ he þat it kepeþ [2495] ¶ Now sir þenne schulle ȝe quyte þe kepyng of ȝoure persone to ȝoure trewe frendes þat ben aproved and y-knowe [2496] and of hem schuln ȝe asken helpe ȝoure persone for to kepe ¶ ffor Caton saiþ ¶ If þou hast neede of helpe; aske it of þin frendes [2497] ffor þer nys non so good a phisicien as þin trewe freend [2498] and after þis þenne schulle ȝe kepe ȝou fro alle straunge folk and fro lyeres And haue alway in suspecte here companye [2499] ¶ ffor pieres alphouns saiþ ¶ Ne take no companye by þe way of straunge man but it so be þou haue knowe him of lengere tyme. [2500] and if so be þat he falle in to þin company per|aduenture wiþouten þin assent [2501] enquere þenne as subtilly as þou canst of his conuersacion and of his lyf byfore and feyne þy way seynge þou woldest go þider as þou woldest nouȝt go. [2502] and if he bereþ a spere holde þe on þe right syde of him . and if he bereþ a swerde holde þe on þe left syde of him. [2503] and þenne schul ȝe kepe ȝou wisly fro alle such manere of poeple as Ihaue sayde ȝou here bifore and hem and here coun|sel eschewe [2504] And after þis þenne schulle ȝe kepe ȝou in such manere [2505] þat for any presumpcioun of ȝoure bodily strengþe þat ȝe ne dispise nought ne accounte nouȝt þe might of ȝoure aduersary so lyte þat ȝe lete þe kepynge of ȝoure persone for ȝoure presumpcion [2506] ffor euery wysman dredeþ his enemy [2507] ¶ And Salamon saiþ wel fool is he þat of al haþ drede [2508] ¶ ffor [folio 225a] certes he þat þurgh hardynesse of his herte and þurgh þe hardynes of himself haþ so gret presumpcion him schal yuele betyde [2509] ¶ Thenne
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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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