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

                                
                                     [6-text p 447] 
                                  
                                  Wele maie þe seke man be-waile and wepe
                                
                                  þere as þere nes no wif þe house to kepe
                                
                                  .I. warne þe if wisely þou wilt worche
                                
                                  Loue wele þi wif as crist loueþ his chirche [folio 130b] 
                                
                                  If þou loues þi self þou loues þi wif
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                                  No man hateþ his flesche bot in his lif
                                
                                  He fostreþe it and þer-for bid .I. þe
                                
                                  Chirische þi wif or þou scalt neuer þe
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                                  Husband and wif whatt so men Iape or pleie
                                
                                  Of werldly folke holde þe riht weie
                                
                                  Thei buen so knytte þer maie non harme be-tide
                                
                                  And namely vpon the wif side
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                                  For whiche þis Ianuare of whiche .I. tolde
                                
                                  Considered in wiþ his daies olde
                                
                                  The lusty þe vertuous quiete
                                
                                  That is in mariage any swete
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                                  And for his frendes on a daie sent
                                
                                  To tellen hem þeffect of his e[n]tent
                                
                                  Wiþ face sadde he haþ hem þis tale tolde
                                
                                  He seide frendes .I. am hore and olde
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                                  And almoste god wote att my puttes brinke
                                
                                  Vpon my soule sum what most .I. þinke
                                
                                  .I. haue my body folely dispended
                                
                                  .I.-blissed be god þat it schal be amended
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                                  For .I. wil be certeine a wedded man
                                
                                  And þat in al þe hast þat .I. can
                                
                                  Vnto sum maide faire and tendre of age
                                
                                  .I. praie ȝowe schape for mi Mariage
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                                  Als sudanly for .I. wil nouht abide
                                
                                  And .I. wil fonde aspie on my side
                                
                                  To whome .I. maie be wedded hastely
                                
                                  Bot for also muche as ȝe buen mo þan .I.
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                                  ȝe scholl raþerne suche a þinge aspyen
                                
                                  þan .I. and where me lust best to allyen
                                
                                  Bot o þinge warne .I. ȝowe my frendes dere
                                
                                  .I. wil none olde wif haue in no manere

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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 325
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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