The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  Or for that eche of hem / shulde helpen other
                                
                                  In myschief / as a suster shal the brother
                                
                                  And lyue in chastite / ful holily
                                
                                  But sires be ȝoure leue / that am nat I
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                                  ffor god be thanked / I dar mak a-vaunt
                                
                                  I fele myne lymes stark / and sufficeaunt
                                
                                  To do al that a man / bylongeth to
                                
                                  I wot my self best / what I may do
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                                  Though I be hore / I fare as doth a tree
                                
                                  That blomyth / er þat fruyt I-wexen be
                                
                                  A blosmy tree / nys neither drye ne dede
                                
                                  I fele me nowher hore / but oon myn hede
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                                  My herte and alle myne lymes / ben as grene
                                
                                  As laurell thurgh the ȝere / is for to sene
                                
                                  And syn that ȝe / han herd al myn entent
                                
                                  I preye ȝow to my wyl / ȝe wyln assent
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                                  Dyuerse men / diuersly him told
                                
                                  Of mariage / manye ensaumples old
                                
                                  Some blamed it / some preised it certeyn
                                
                                  But at the laste / shortly for to seyn
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                                  As al day falleth / altercacion
                                
                                  Betwixe frendes / in disputacion
                                
                                  There fel a strif / be-twix hise bretheren two
                                
                                  Of which / þat on / was cleped / Placebo
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                                  Iustinus sothly / called was that other
                                
                                  Placebo seide / o Ianuare brother
                                
                                  fful litel nede / had ȝe my lord so deere
                                
                                  Counseil to aske / of ony that is heere
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                                  But that ȝe ben / so ful of sapience [folio 109a] 
                                
                                  That ȝow ne lyketh / for ȝoure heygh prudence
                                
                                  To wyue fro the word / of Salamon
                                
                                  This word seide he / vn-to vs euerychon
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                                  Werk al thyng be counseil / thus seide he
                                
                                  And thanne shalt þou nat / repente the
                                
                                  But though that Salamon / spak swich a word
                                
                                  Myn owen dere brother / and my lord

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 282
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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