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The Franklin's Tale Folio 154v 3 of 24 folios

xxx x thyng sires / saufly dar I seye

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xxat freendes / euerich oother moote obeye

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If they wol longe holden compaignye

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Loue wol nat be constreyned by maistrye

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Whan maistrie comth / the god of loue anon

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Beteth his wynges / and farwel he is gon

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Loue is a thyng as any spirit free

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Wommen of kynde / desiren libertee

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And nat to been constreyned / as a thral

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And so doon men / if I sooth seyn shal

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Looke / who þ^t moost is pacient in loue

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He is / at his auantage al aboue

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Pacience / is an heigh vertu certeyn

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For it venquysseth / as thise clerkes seyn

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Thynges / that rigour sholde neuere atteyne

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For euery word / men may nat chide or pleyne

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Lerneth to suffre / or ellis so moot I gon

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Ye shul it lerne / wher so ye wole or non

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For in this world / certeyn ther no wight is

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That he ne dooth / or seith som tyme amys

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Ire / siknesse / or constellacioū

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Wyn / wo / or chaungyng of cōplexioū

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Causeth ful ofte / to doon amys or speken

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On euery wrong a man may nat be wreken

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After the tyme / moste be temperaunce

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To euery wight þ^t kan on gouernaunce

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And therfore / hath this wise worthy knyght

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To lyue in ese / suffraūce hir bihight

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And she to hym / ful wisly gan to swere

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That neuere / sholde ther be / defaute in here

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¶ Here may men seen / an humble wys acord

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Thus hath she take / hir seruant and hir lord

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Seruant in loue / and lord in mariage

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Thanne was he bothe / in lordshipe & seruage

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Seruage nay / but in lordshipe aboue

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Sith he hath / bothe his lady and his loue

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His lady certes / and his wyf also

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The which / þ^t lawe of loue acordeth to

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And whan he was / in this prosperitee

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Hom with his wyf he gooth to his contree

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Stubbs, Estelle, Michael Pidd, Orietta Da Rold, Simon Horobin and Claire Thomson with Linda Cross, eds. (2013). The Multitext Edition. The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales. Published by: University of Sheffield. Available at: <http://www.chaucermss.org/multitext> [Accessed 22 January 2025].

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