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

[6-text p 209] folke þan of him self; [2263] And sire þat þare haþ bue many a goode womman maie lihtly be proued [2264] ¶ Certes sire oure lorde ihesu crist nold neuere haue descended to be borne of womman if al wemmen hadde be wikke. [2265] And after þat for þe grete bounte þat is in wemmen oure lorde ihesus whan he was resen fro deþe to lyf; he appered raþer to wemmen þan he dide to his aposteles [2266] And þouhe þat Salomon seiþ. he ne fonde neuer womman goode. It fouloweþ nouht þere-fore þat al wemmen be wikke [2267] ¶ For þouhe þat he no fonde no good womman. Certes mony a noþer man haþ founden many a womman ful goode & trewe. [2268] Or elles perauenture þe entente of Salomon was þus; That as in souereine bounte he fonde no womman [2269] ¶ þis is to seie þat þere is no wight þat haþe parfite bounte saue god alone; as he him self recordeþ in his euaun|geliste; [2270] ffor þere ne is no creture þat him ne wanteþ sumwhat of þe perfeccion of god þat is his maker [2271] ¶ The þred reson is þis ¶ ȝe seie þat if ȝe gouern ȝoue be my counsel; it scholde seme þat ȝe hadde ȝeue to me þe maistre. & þe lordeschipe of ȝoure persone; [2272] Sire; saue ȝoure grace it is nouht so ¶ For if so were þat noman scholde be conseiled bot only of hem þat hadd lordeschip & Meistre of his person. Men nold nouȝt be counceilled so oft. [2273] For soþely þilke man þat axeþ counsel of a purpos; ȝit haþe frewill weþer he wil do after þat counseil or no; [2274] ¶ And as to ȝoure ferþe reson. þere as ȝe seine þat þe Ianglerye of wemmen can hide þinges þat þei wote nouht. As who seiþe; þat a womman kan nouht hide þat sche wote; [2275] sire þes wordes buen vnder|stonde of wemmen þat bien Ianglers & wikked; [2276] of whiche wemmen Men seine þat þre þinges driueþ a man oute of his house ¶ þat is to seie. Smoke. dropeinge of Reine? & wikked wyues. [2277] ¶ And
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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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