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

                                
                                     [6-text p 502] 
                                  
                                  And nouht to be constreined as a þrall
                                
                                  And so doþ men. if .I. þe soþe saie schall
                                
                                  Loke who þat is most pacient in loue
                                
                                  He is att auantage aboue
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                                  Paciens is an hihe vertue certeigne
                                
                                  [ffor it venquyscheth as these clerkis seyne. [Harl. 1758 folio 128a] ]
                                
                                  Thinges þat Rigor schol neuere atteigne
                                
                                  For euery worde men maie nouht chide ne pleine
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                                  Lereneþ to suffur or elles so must .I. gone
                                
                                  Ȝe scholne it leren wheþer so ȝe wol or none
                                
                                  For in þis werlde certeine no wight ne is
                                
                                  þat he ne doþ or seiþe sum time of mys
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                                  Or eiþer sekenes or constillacione
                                
                                  Wyn wo or channgeinge of complexione
                                
                                  Causeþ ful often to don amys or speken
                                
                                  On euery wronge men maye nouht bue awreken
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                                  After þe time most be temperance
                                
                                  To euery whiht þat can no gouernance
                                
                                  And þerfore haþe þis worþe wise knyht
                                
                                  To leue in ese suffrance hir be-hiht
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                                  And sche to him ful wiseli gan to swere
                                
                                  þat neuere scholde be defaute in hire
                                
                                  Here maie men seen an humble wise accorde
                                
                                  Thus haþ sche take hire seruant and hir lorde
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                                  Seruant in loue and lorde in Mariage
                                
                                  þan was he boþe in lordeschipe and seruage
                                
                                  Seruage naye bot in lordeschip a-boue
                                
                                  Seþen þat he haþ boþe his ladi and his loue
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                                  His lady certes and his wif also [folio 142b] 
                                
                                  The whiche þat lowe of loue accordeþ þarto
                                
                                  And whan he was in þis prosperite
                                
                                  Home wiþ his wif he goþ to his contre
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                                  Nouht ffer fro penmarke þar as his dwellinge was
                                
                                  Where as he leues in blisse and in solas
                                
                                  Who couþe tell bot he had wedded bue
                                
                                  The . Ioye þe ese. and þe prosperite

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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 353
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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