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

[6-text p 210] of suche wemmen seiþe Salomon . þat him were better duelle in desert. þan wiþ a womman þat is reyetous. [2278] And sire be ȝoure leue þat am nouht .I. [2279] For ȝe haue ful oft assaide my grete silence & my grete pacience. And eke howe wele þat .I. can hide. & hele þinges þat men ouhten sekerly to hiden; [2280] ¶ And forþe as to ȝoure fift resone; wher as ȝe seie þat in wiked coun|sel wemmen venquyseþ men; Gode wote þilke [folio 195a] reson stondeþ here in no stede; [2281] ¶ For vnder-stondeþ nowe ȝe ax conseil for to do wikkednesse. [2282] And if ȝe wil wirke wikkenesse; & ȝoure wife restreyneþ þilke wikked purpos; And ouere-comme ȝowe be reson & be goode counsel. [2283] Certes ȝowe wif ouht raþer to be preised þan to be blamed. [2284] This schold ȝe vnder|stande þe Philosofre þat saiþe. In wikked conseile wemmen venquisched her husbondes. [2285] And þere as ȝe blame al wemmen & here resons .I. schal schew ȝoue be monye ensamples þat mony wemmen han bien ful goode & ȝut buen. ¶ An here consel holsome & profitable [2286] eke: Sommen haue seid þat counselinge of wemmen es eiþer to dere or elles to lite of prise [2287] ¶ Bot al be it so þat ful mony a womman is badde. & hire consel vile & not worþe. ȝit haþe men founden mony a goode womman. & ful discrete & wise in counselinge. [2288] ¶ Lo Iacob þoruhe þe good counsel of his moder Rebec /./ whan he hadde. þe benyson of his fader. & þe lordschip ouere al his breþer. [2289] ¶ Iudiþe þoruhe hire goode counsel deliuerd þe Cite of Buþhilie in whiche sche duelte oute of þe hande of Olifernce þat hit beseged; & wolde haue al destruyed it. [2290] ¶ Abegayle deliuer Nabal hire husbonde fro dauid þe kinge þat wold haue sleyne him & apesed þe ire of þe kinge be hire witte & be hire good counseil|inge. [2291] Ester be hire counseile enchauncede gretlye þe peple of god in þe reigne of Assur [2292] ¶ And þe same bounte in goode conselinge of
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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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