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

                                
                                     [6-text p 343] 
                                  
                                  Thowe schalt nouht boþe þouhe þat þou were wode
                                
                                  Be maistre of Mi body and my goode
                                
                                  Þat on þou schalt for-goo mawgreve þine eyȝen
                                
                                  What helpeþ it on me enquere and spien
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  .I. trowe þouhe þou woldest loke me in þi chist
                                
                                  Þou schold seie wif go where as ȝow liste
                                
                                  Take ȝowre disporte .I. wil not leue no tales
                                
                                  .I. knowe ȝow for a good wif Dam Ales
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                                  We loue no man þat take kepe or charge
                                
                                  Where þat we go we will be at owre large
                                
                                  Of al men blissed mot he be
                                
                                  The wise Astrologen Dam Ptholome
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                                  That seiþ þis prouerbe in his Almagest
                                
                                  Of al men his wisdome is hiest
                                
                                  Þat rekkeþ nouht who haþ þis werlde in honde
                                
                                  Be þis prouerbe þou schalt wele vnde-stonde
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  Haue þoue .I.-nowhe what þare þe rekke or kare
                                
                                  Howe merely þat oþe[r] folke fare
                                
                                  For certes olde dotterd be ȝoure leue
                                
                                  Ȝe schal haue qweynte riht. ynowhe att eue
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  He is to grete a nigarde þat wil warne
                                
                                  A man to lyht a candel att his lanterne
                                
                                  He schal haue neuere þe lesse liht parde
                                
                                  Haue þou .I.-nowhe þe þar not pleine þe
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                                  Thou seiste also þat if þou make vs gaie
                                
                                  Wiþ Cloþeinge or wiþ precious araye
                                
                                  þat it is peril of owre chastite
                                
                                  And ȝit wiþ wordes þou moste enfors me
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                                  And seie þes wordes in þe Apostles name
                                
                                  In Abite maad wiþ chastite and schame
                                
                                  Ȝe wemmen schold apparel ȝowe quod he
                                
                                  And nouȝt in tressede here and gay perre
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                                  As perel ne wiþ gold ne cloþes riche [folio 91b] 
                                
                                  Aftere þi tixte ne after þi rubriche
                                
                                  .I. wil nout wirke as muche as a gnatte
                                
                                  Thou seide als þat .I. was like a catte

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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 222
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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