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

                                
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                                  To leren whatt þinge wemmen louen most
                                
                                  Bot he nowe couþe riden in no cost
                                
                                  Where as he myht finde in þis matier
                                
                                  Two creatures accordinge in fere
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                                  Some seide wemmen louen best riches
                                
                                  Some seide honour some seid Iolynes
                                
                                  Some seide Riche araye and lust abedde
                                
                                  And oft tim to be wedowe and wedde
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                                  Some seide þat we be most esede
                                
                                  Whan þat we bene flaterde and yplesede
                                
                                  He goþ ful nyhe þe soþe .I. wil nouht lye
                                
                                  A man schal wynne vs best wiþ flaterye
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                                  And wiþ attendance and wiþ besines
                                
                                  Bene we y-lymede boþ more and les
                                
                                  And som men sein howe þat we louen best
                                
                                  For to bue fre and do riht as vs lest
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                                  And þat no man repreue vs of oure vice
                                
                                  Bot sei þat we bue wise and noþinge nice
                                
                                  For trewly þare is none of vs al
                                
                                  If any wight wil clowe vs on þe gal
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                                  Þat we nyl loke or he seie þe soþe
                                
                                  Assaie and he schal finde it þat he doþe
                                
                                  For be we neuere so vicious with-inne
                                
                                  we wil be holden wise and clene of sinne
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                                  And summen seine þat grete delite haue we
                                
                                  For to be holden stable and eke secre
                                
                                  And in o purpos stedfastly to dwell
                                
                                  And nouht be-wrye þinge þat men vs tell
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                                  Bot þat tale is nouȝt worþ a rake stele
                                
                                  Parde we wemmen kan no þinge hele
                                
                                  Wittenesse of myda wil ȝe here þe tale
                                
                                  Ouide a-monges oþer þinges smale
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                                  Seiþ Mida ha vndre his longe heres
                                
                                  Growinge vpon his tuo asse eres
                                
                                  The whiche vice he hidde as he best myht
                                
                                  Ful subtily from eueryche mannes siht

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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 240
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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