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

[6-text p 240] ¶ Ne þine goodes schullen not ben so opene to ben euery mannes goodes [2814] ¶ afterward in getynge of ȝour richesses ¶ And in vsynge hem ȝe schuln alway haue þre þinges in ȝoure herte [2815] [c'est assavoir, Dieu, conscience, et bonne fame, et renommée. [2816] Tu dois doncques avoir Dieu en ton cuer (Le Ménagier, i. 224)] [2817] ¶ And for no richesse ȝe schuln doon no þing þat may be displesaunce to god þat is ȝoure creatour and ȝoure maker [2818] ¶ ffor after þe word of Salamon ¶ hit is bettre to haue a luytel good wiþ þe loue of god. [2819] þan to haue mochil good and tresour and lese þe loue of his lord god [2820] ¶ And þe prophete saiþ. þat better it is to ben a good man and haue lytel good and tresour. [2821] þan to be halden a schrewe and to haue gret richesse [2822] ¶ ȝet say I forþermore þat ȝe schuln don ȝoure busynesse to geten ȝou richesse [2823] So þat ȝe geten hem wiþ good conscience [2824] ¶ And þe appostel saiþ þat þer is no þing in þis world of which we schulden haue so gret ioye; as when oure conscience bereþ vs good witnesse [2825] ¶ And þe wise man saiþ ¶ The substaunce of a man is ful good when synne is nought in mannes conscience [2826] ¶ Aftirward in getyng of ȝoure Richesses and in vsynge of hem; [2827] ȝe moste haue gret busynesse and gret diligence that ȝoure goode name be alwey kepte and conserued [2828] ¶ ffor Sala|mon saiþ ¶ þat better it is and more auayleþ a man to haue good name þen to haue grete richesses [2829] ¶ And þerfore he saiþ in anoþer place ¶ Do gret diligence saiþ Salamon in kepyng of þin frende and of þin goode name [2830] ¶ ffor it schal lenger abyde with þe þan eny tresour be it neuer so precious [2831] ¶ And certes he schulde nouȝt be cleped a gentil man þat after god and good conscience alle þinges lefte þat he ne doþ his busynesse ne diligence to kepen his good name [2832] ¶ And Cassidorie saiþ þat it is signe of a good herte whan a man loueþ and desyreþ to haue a good name
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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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