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

                                
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                                  Sche saith nought oones nay whan he saith ȝe
                                
                                  Do þis saith he. al redy sir saith sche
                                
                                  O blisful ordre o wedlok precious
                                
                                  Thou art so mery and ek so vertuous
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                                  And so comendid and approued eek
                                
                                  That euery man þat holt him worth a leek
                                
                                  vpon his bare knees ought al his lyf
                                
                                  Thanken his god þat him haþ sent a wif [folio 134b] 
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                                  Or pray to god oon him for to sende
                                
                                  To be with him vnto his lyues ende /
                                
                                  For þan his lyf is set in sikernesse /
                                
                                  he may not be deceyued as I gesse /
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                                  So þat he worche after his wyfes red
                                
                                  Þan may be boldely bere vp his heed
                                
                                  Thay ben so trewe and also so wyse
                                
                                  For whiche if þou wolt do as þe wyse
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                                  Do alway so þe womman wol þe rede
                                
                                  lo how þat Iacob as þe clerkes rede
                                
                                  By good counseil of his moder Rebecke
                                
                                  Band þe kydes skyn about his sones nekke
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                                  For which his fader benesoun he wan
                                
                                  Lo Iudith as þe story telle can
                                
                                  By wys counseil sche goddes poepel kept
                                
                                  And slough him oliphernus whil he slept
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                                  Lo abygaille by good counseil how sche /
                                
                                  Sauyd hir housbond Nacab whan þat he /
                                
                                  Schold han ben slayn And loke after also
                                
                                  By good counseil deliuered out of wo;
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                                  Þe poeple of god. and made him mandoche
                                
                                  Of Assure enhaunsed for to be
                                
                                  Ther nys no þing / in gre superlatif
                                
                                  As saith Senec aboue an humble wyf
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                                  Suffre þy wyues tonge as Catoun byt
                                
                                  She schal comaunde and þou schalt suffre it
                                
                                  And ȝit sche wil obeye of curtesye
                                
                                  A wif is keper of þin housbondrye

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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 305
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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