The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  And eek þay say þer was som tyme at Rome
                                
                                  A clerk a Cardynal þat heet seint Ierome
                                
                                  That made a book aȝens Iouynyan
                                
                                  In which book eeke þer was terculan
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                                  Crisippus tortula and eek helewys
                                
                                  That was abbas not fer fro paris
                                
                                  And eek þe parablis of Salamon
                                
                                  Ouydes art and bourdes many oon
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                                  And alle þese were bounde in oo volume
                                
                                  And euery night and day was his custume
                                
                                  whan he had leysir and vacacioun
                                
                                  From oþer worldes occupacioun
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                                  To reden in þis book of wikked wyues
                                
                                  he knew of hem mo legendes and lyues
                                
                                  Þan ben of goode wyues in þe bible
                                
                                  For trustith wel it is an inpossible
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                                  That any clerk schal speke good of wyues
                                
                                  But if it be of holy seintes lyues
                                
                                  Ne of noon oþer wyfes neuer þe mo
                                
                                  who peyntid þe leoun tel me who
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                                  By god if wommen hadde writen stories
                                
                                  As clerkes haue wiþinne her oratories
                                
                                  Thay wold haue write of men more wickidnes
                                
                                  Than al þe mark of Adam may redres
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                                  These children of mercury and of venus
                                
                                  Ben in her werkyng ful contrarius
                                
                                  Mercury louith wisdom and science
                                
                                  And venus loueth ryot and dispense
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                                  And for her diuers disposicioun
                                
                                  Ech fallith in oþeres exaltacioun
                                
                                  And þus god wot mercury is desolate [folio 95b] 
                                
                                  In pisses wher venus is exaltate
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                                  And venus faylith wher Mercury is reysed
                                
                                  Therfor no womman of clerkes is preised
                                
                                  The clerk whan he is old and may nouȝt do
                                
                                  Of venus werkis is not worþ a scho

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 213
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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