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 ...

                                
                                  And nat to be constreyned / as a thral
                                
                                  And so doon men / If I sooth seyn / shal
                                
                                  loke who that most / is pacient in loue
                                
                                  he is at his auauntage / al a-boue
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                                  Pacience / is an heigh vertu / certeyn
                                
                                  ffor it venquyssheth / alle theise clerkes seyn
                                
                                  Thynges / that rigour shulde neuere ateyne
                                
                                  ffor euery word / men moun nat chide or pleyne
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                                  Lerneth to suffre / or elles so mot I gon
                                
                                  Ȝe shuln it lerne / wheiþer so ȝe wol or noon
                                
                                  ffor in this world certeyn / there no wyght is
                                
                                  That he ne doth or seith / somtyme amys
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                                  Ire / sykenesse / or constellacion
                                
                                  Wyn / woo / or chaungyng of complexion
                                
                                  Causeth ful ofte / to don a-mys or spekyn
                                
                                  On euery wrong / a man may nat be wrekyn
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                                  After the tyme / must be temperaunce
                                
                                  To euery wyght / that can on gouernaunce
                                
                                  And therfore hath / this wys worthy knyght
                                
                                  To lyue in ease / suffraunce hire behight
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                                  And she to him / ful wysly gan to swere
                                
                                  That neuere shulde there be / defaute in hire
                                
                                  ¶ heere moun men sen / an humble wys accord
                                
                                  Thus hath she take hire seruaunt / & hire lord
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                                  Seruaunt in loue / and lord in mariage
                                
                                  Thanne was he / bothe in lordshipe / & seruage
                                
                                  Seruage nay / but in lordshipe a-boue
                                
                                  Sithe he hath bothe / his lady and his loue
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                                  His lady certes / and his wyf also [folio 129b] 
                                
                                  To which / that lawe of loue / accordeth to
                                
                                  And whan he was / in this prosperitee
                                
                                  hoom with his wyf / he gooth to his contree
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                                  Nat fer fro Pedmarke / there his dwellyng was
                                
                                  Where as he lyueth / in blisse and in solas
                                
                                  ¶ Who coude telle / but he had wedded be
                                
                                  The ioye / the ese / and the prosperitee

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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 335
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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