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

                                
                                     [6-text p 471] 
                                  
                                  To euery wight þat wit and resoun can
                                
                                  Thus praysith he ȝit þe bounte of man
                                
                                  Among a þousand men ȝit fond I oon
                                
                                  But of wommen alle fond I noon
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                                  Thus saith þe king þat knoweth ȝour wikkednesse
                                
                                  And Ihc filius Sirac / as I gesse /
                                
                                  Ne spekith of ȝow but selde reuerence
                                
                                  A. wilde fuyr and corrupt pestilence
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                                  So falle vpon ȝour bodies ȝit to night
                                
                                  Ne se ȝe not þis honurable knight
                                
                                  By cause allas þat he is blynd and old
                                
                                  his owne man schal make him cokewold
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                                  loo wher he sitt . þe lecchour in þe tre
                                
                                  Now wol I graunten of my maieste /
                                
                                  Unto þis olde blinde worþy knight
                                
                                  Þat he schal haue aȝein his eyȝen sight
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                                  whan þat his wyf wol do him vilonye
                                
                                  Than schal he knowe al her harlotrye
                                
                                  Boþe in reproef of her and oþer mo
                                
                                  Ȝe schal quod preserpine and wol ȝe so [folio 146b] 
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                                  Now by my modres sires soule I swere
                                
                                  That I schal ȝiue hir suffisaunt answere /
                                
                                  And alle wommen after for hir sake
                                
                                  That þough þay be in any gult I-take
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                                  with face bold þay schul hemself excuse
                                
                                  And bere hem doun þat wolde hem accuse
                                
                                  For lak/ of answer noon of hem schal dyen
                                
                                  Al had a man seyn a þing wiþ boþe his yen
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                                  Ȝit schul we wymmen visage it hardily
                                
                                  And wepe and swere and chide subtilly
                                
                                  So þat ȝe men schul ben as lewed as gees
                                
                                  what rekkith me of/ ȝour auctoritees
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                                  I wot wel þat þis Iew þis Salamon
                                
                                  Fond of vs wommen fooles many oon
                                
                                  But þough he ne fond no good womman
                                
                                  Ȝet haþ þer founde many anoþer man

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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 330
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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