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

                                
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                                  And forth she gooth / as Iolif as a pye
                                
                                  And bad the cookes / þat they sholde hem hye
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  So þat men myghte dyne / and that anon
                                
                                  Vp to hir housbonde / is this wyf ygon
                                
                                  And knokketh / at his Countour boldely
                                
                                  ¶ Who ther? quod he / Peter it am I. [¶ qi la?] 
                                
                                  Quod she / what sire / how longe wol ye faste?
                                
                                  How longe tyme / wol ye rekene and caste?
                                
                                  Youre sommes / and youre bookes / and youre thynges?
                                
                                  The deuel haue part on alle swiche rekenynges
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                                  Ye haue ynough pardee / of goddes sonde
                                
                                  Com doun to day / and lat youre bagges stonde
                                
                                  Ne be ye nat ashamed that Daun Iohn
                                
                                  Shal fasting al this day alenge goon
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                                  Lat vs heere a messe / and go we dyne
                                
                                  ¶ Wyf quod this man / litel kanstow deuyne
                                
                                  The curious bisynesse / that we haue
                                
                                  ffor of vs Chapmen / al so god me saue
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                                  And by that lord / þat clepid is Seint Yve
                                
                                  Scarsly amonges .xij. ten shul thryue
                                
                                  Continuelly / lastynge vn to oure age
                                
                                  We may wel / make chiere / and good visage
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                                  And dryue forth the world / as it may be
                                
                                  And kepen / oure estaat in pryuetee
                                
                                  Til we be deed / or elles that we pleye
                                
                                  A pilgrymage / or goon out of the weye
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                                  And therfore / haue I greet necessitee [folio 150a] 
                                
                                  Vp on this queynte world tauyse me
                                
                                  ffor eueremoore / we moote stonde in drede
                                
                                  Of hap and ffortune / in oure chapmanhede
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                                  ¶ To fflaundres / wol I go / to morwe at day
                                
                                  And come agayn / as soone as euere I may
                                
                                  ffor which my deere wyf I thee biseke
                                
                                  As be to euery wight buxom and meke
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                                  And for to kepe oure good / be curious
                                
                                  And honestly / gouerne wel oure hous

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 397
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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