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

[6-text p 344] Bot who so wolde seigne a catte scynne þat wolde þe cat wele dwelle in his Inne And if þe catt skynne be skyke and gaie Sche nil nouht dwel in house halue a daie 352 Bot forþe sche will or any daie be dawede To schewe hir scynn and go a Caterwawede This is to sei .If .I. be gaie sir sch [[A letter has been scratcht out after the h in this word.]] ewe .I. wil rinne out My borell for to sschewe Sire olde foole whatte helpeþ þe to spyen 357 Theihe þou preie Argus wiþ his hondred eyȝen [Argus habuit C oculos] To be my wardecors as he can best In feiþe he schal nouȝt kepe me bot if me list 360 Ȝite couþe .I. maake his berde so mut .I. þe Thow seist eke þat þere be þinges þre The whiche þinges troublen al þis erþe And þat no whiht ne maye endure þe ferþe 364 O leue sir schrewe ihesu schort þi lif ȝet prechest þou and seist an hateful wif .I.-reknyd is for on of þis meschaunces Bene þere none oþer maner resemblaunces 368 That ȝe maie likken ȝowre parables to Bot ȝif a sely wif be on of þo Thou likenest wommannes loue to hell To Bareine londe þer water maie not dwelle 372 Thou likenest it also to wilde fire þe more it berneþ þe more it haþe desire To consume any þinge þat brent wolde bee þou seist riht as wermes schendeþ a tree 376 Riht so a wif distreyeþ hir husbonde This knowe þei þat bue to wyues bonde ¶ Lordeynges riht þus as ȝe haue vnder-stande Bare .I. stifly myne olde hu[s]bondes on hande 380 þat þus þei seiden in her drunkennes And þat he had suspecion and Ielousenes On Iankyn and on my nefe also O lorde þe peine .I. ded hem and þe woo 384
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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