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

[6-text p 226] þe speciale; ¶ Ȝe schollen first procede after þe doctrine. of Tullius. [2546] Certes þe treuþe of þis Matier eiþere of þis counsell nedeþ nouht diligently enquiren; [2547] For it is wele wist whiche þei bien; þat haue do ȝow þis trispas & velany; [2548] & howe many trespassours & in what manere þei haue done to ȝowe al þis wronge & all þis velanye [2549] ¶ And after þis; þan schal ȝe examyne þe secunde condicion; þe whiche þat Tullius haddeþ in þis matiere. [2550] ¶ For tullius. putteþ a þinge whiche att he clepeþ consentynge; þis is to seie; [2551] who buen þei & whiche buen þei & houe mony þat consenten to þi counsell in þi wilfulnes to done hasti vengeance; // [2552] And lat vs consider also who bien þei. & how mony bien þei [et quelz (MS Reg. 19 C xi, lf 58, col. 4)] þat þat consenten to ȝoure aduersaries [2553] ¶ And certes as to þe first pointe it is wele knowen whiche be þei þat consentine to ȝoure hastif wilful|nes; [2554] For treuly al þo þat counsel ȝoue to maken sodein werre ne bien nouȝt ȝoure frendes [2555] ¶ Lete se nowe whiche bien þei þat ȝe holde so gretely ȝoure frendes as to ȝoure person; [2556] For al be it so þat ȝe bene myhte & riche; certes ȝe bue bot alone. [2557] ffor certes ȝe haue no childe bot a douhtere; [2558] ne ȝe haue no breþern ne cosins germayns ne none oþere nyhe kinred; [2559] where-for ȝoure enmys scholden stint to plete wiþ ȝowe ne to destruyen ȝoure person; [2560] ¶ Ȝe knowen also þat ȝoure riches most be dispended in diuerse parties; [2561] And what þat euery whight [folio 199a] haþ his parte þei wolne tak litel rewarde to vengen þi deþ [2562] ¶ Bot þine enemys bien þre; & þei haue many childerne. breþern; cosins; & oþere nyhe kinrede [2563] ¶ And þouhe so were þat þou haddest sleine of hem tuo or þre; Ȝit dwellen þere y-nowe to awreken here deþe; & to sle þine persone [2564] & þeihe so be þat ȝoure kinred be more sikere & stedfast þan
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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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