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

[6-text p 239] þat spendeþ ouer largely [2792] ¶ And þerfore saiþ Caton ¶ vse þine riches þat þow hast y-geten [2793] in such manere þat men han no matiere ne cause to clepe þe wrecche ne chynche [2794] ¶ ffor it is gret schame to a man to haue a pouere herte and a riche purse [2795] ¶ he saiþ also þe goodes þat þou haste y-geten vse hem by mesure þat is to sayn spende mesurably [2796] ¶ ffor þey þat folily wasten and dispenden þe goodes þat þey han [2797] whan þay haue no more propre of here owne; þey schapen hem to take þe goodes of anoþer man [2798] ¶ I say þanne þat he schal flee auarice [2799] vsynge ȝoure richesse in suche a manere that men say not þat ȝoure richesses ben y-buried [2800] but þat ȝe han hem in ȝoure might and in ȝoure weldynge [2801] ffor a wise man reproueþ þe auerous man and saiþ þus in tuo vers [2802] ¶ wherto and why burieþ a man his goodes by his auarice and knoweþ wel þat needes moste he dye [2803] ¶ ffor deþ is þe ende of euery man as in þis present lyf [2804] ¶ And for what cause or encheson ioigneþ he him or knetteþ he hem so faste vnto his goodes [2805] þat alle his wittes mowen nouȝt disseueren him or departen him fro his goodes. [2806] and knoweþ wel or owghte to knowe þat whan he is deed he schal nouȝt bere out of þe world wiþ him [2807] ¶ and þerfore saiþ seint Austyn þat þe auerous man is likned vnto helle [2808] ¶ þat þe more it cheweþ þe more desir it haþ to swelwe and deuoure [2809] ¶ And as wel alle ȝe wolde eschewe to ben y-cleped an auerous man or a chynche [2810] ¶ As wel schulde ȝe gouerne ȝou and kepe ȝou in such a wyse þat men clepe ȝou nouȝt to large [2811] ¶ þerfore Tullius [folio 230b] saiþ ¶ The goodes he saiþ of þin hous schulde not ben hydde ne kepte in cloos but þat þay mighte ben opened wiþ pitee and with debonairtee [2812] þat is to say to ȝeuen hem part þat han gret neede [2813]
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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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