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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 397] That thou departe it so / my leeue brother That euery frere / haue also muche as oother This shaltou swere / on thy profession With-outen fraude / or cauillacion 2136 ¶ I swere it quod this frere / by my feith And ther-with-al / his hand in his he leith Lo heer my feith / in me shal be no lak ¶ Now thanne put In thyn hand doun by my bak 2140 Seyde this man / and grope wel bihynde Bynethe my buttok ther shaltow fynde A thyng that I haue hyd in pryuetee ¶ A thoghte this frere / this shal go with me 2144 And doun his hand / he launcheth to the clifte In hope / for to fynde there a yifte And whan this sike man / felte this frere Aboute his tuwel / grope there and heere 2148 Amydde his hand / he leet the frere a fart Ther nys no capul / drawynge in a Cart That myghte haue lete a fart of swich a soun ¶ The frere vp stirte / as dooth a wood leoun 2152 A fals cherl quod he / for goddes bones This hastow for despit doon for the nones Thou shalt abye this fart if that I may [folio 90a] ¶ His meynee / whiche that herden this affray 2156 Cam lepynge In / and chaced out the frere And forth he gooth / with a ful Angry cheere And fette his felawe / ther as lay his stoor He looked / as it were a wilde boor 2160 He grynte with his teeth / so was he wrooth A sturdy paas / doun to the lordes court he gooth Wher as woned a man / of greet honour To whom / that he was alwey confessour 2164 This worthy man / was lord of that village This frere cam / as he were in a rage Where as this lord / sat etyng at his bord Vnnethes / myghte the frere / speke a word 2168
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The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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