The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  What roune ȝe wiþ oure maide benedicite
                                
                                  Sire olde lichour lat þi Iapes bue
                                
                                  And if .I. haue a gossib or a frende
                                
                                  Wiþ-oute gilte ȝe chide as a fende
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                                  Ȝif þat .I. walk or pleie in-to his house
                                
                                  Thowe comest home as dronke as mouse
                                
                                  An prechest on þi bynche wiþ yuel preue
                                
                                  Tho seid to me it is a grete Meschief
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                                  To wedde a pouer womman for costage
                                
                                  And if þat sche be riche of grete parage
                                
                                  Þan seist þat it is a tormentrie
                                
                                  To suffur hire pride and malancolie
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                                  And if þat sche be faire þou verre knave
                                
                                  Thow seiste þat euery hullur will hir have
                                
                                  Sche maie no while in chastite abide
                                
                                  That is assaide vpon iche a side
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                                  Thowe seiste som folke desire us for oure richesse
                                
                                  Som for oure schappe and some for owre fairenesse
                                
                                  And sum for sche kan eyþer singe oþere daunce
                                
                                  Þus seyse þou wernard god ȝeue þe meschaunce
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                                  Some for her hondes and her armes smale [folio 90b] 
                                
                                  Þus goþe al to þe deuel be þi tale
                                
                                  Þou seiste men maie nouȝt kepe a castel wall
                                
                                  It maye so longe assailed be ouer all
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                                  And. if þat sche be foule þou seist þat sche
                                
                                  coueteþe euery man þat sche maie see
                                
                                  For as a spanyel sche wil on him lepe
                                
                                  Til þat sche finde sum man þat wil hir chepe
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                                  Ne none so grei goos goþe þere in þe lake
                                
                                  As seiste þou þat wil bue wiþ-owten make
                                
                                  And seist it is an harde þinge for to welde
                                
                                  A wyght þat no man wil his þonkes helde
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                                  Thus seiste þou lorel whan þou gost to bedde
                                
                                  And þat no wise man nedeþ for to wedde
                                
                                  And no man þat entendeþ to þe heuene
                                
                                  Wiþ wilde þonder dint and fire leuene

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 220
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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