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

[6-text p 209] folk þan himself [2263] ¶ And sire þer haþ be ful many a good womman . . . . .[2264] . . . . .if alle wommen hadde ben wikke [2265] after þat for þe grete bounte þat is in wommen; Oure lord ihu crist/ whan he was risen fro deþ to lyue apperede raþer to a womman þan to his apostles. [2266] ¶ And þough þat Salamon say he fond neuer good womman It folwith nouȝt þerfore þat alle wommen ben wikke. [2267] For þough þat he fonde noone goode wommen certes many a noþer man haþ founden many a womman ful goode and trewe [2268] ¶ Or elles parauenture þentent of Salamon was þis as in souereyn bounte. he fond no womman [2269] þis is to say þat þer is no wight þat haþ souerein bounte saue god aloone as he himself recordeþ in his euaun|gelie. [2270] For þer nys no creature so good þat him wantith som-what of þe perfeccioun of god þat is his makere [2271] ¶ Ȝoure þridde resoun is þis. ȝe seyn. þat if ȝe gouerned ȝow by counsel of me it schulde seme þat ȝe hadde yeue me the maystry and þe lordschipe ouer ȝoure persone. [2272] sire saue ȝoure grace it is not so. For if so were þat no man schulde be counseiled but by hem þat hadde maystrie and lordschipe of his persone; men wolde nought be counseiled so ofte [2273] ¶ For soþly þilke man þat axeth [folio 210a] counseil of a purpos. ȝet haþ he fre chois wheþer he wil werke by þat purpos or noon [2274] ¶ And so to ȝoure ferþe resoun þer ȝe sayn þat the ianglerie of wommen can hyde þinges þat þey wot not of as who saith þat a womman can nought hyde þat at sche woot; [2275] Sire þese wordes ben vnder|stonde of wommen þat ben iangelers and wikke. [2276] of whiche wommen men sayn þat þre þinges dryuen a man out of his oughne hous þat is to say. smoke. droppyng of reyn and wikked wyfes. [2277] of
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The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1885.

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