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

                                
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                                  Thou hast ynough / in euery maner wise
                                
                                  That / to a thrifty houshold may suffise
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                                  Thee lakketh noon array / ne no vitaille
                                
                                  Of siluer in thy purs / shaltow nat faille
                                
                                  And with that word / his Countour dore he shette
                                
                                  And doun he gooth / no lenger wolde he lette
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                                  But hastily / a messe was ther seyd
                                
                                  And spedily / the tables were yleyd
                                
                                  And to the dyner / faste they hem spedde
                                
                                  And richely / this Monk / the chapman fedde
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                                  ¶ At after dyner / daun Iohn sobrely
                                
                                  This Chapman took a-part and priuely
                                
                                  He seyde hym thus / cosyn it standeth so
                                
                                  That wel I se / to Brugges / wol ye go
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                                  God and seint Austyn / spede yow and gyde
                                
                                  I prey yow cosyn / wisely that ye ryde
                                
                                  Gouerneth yow also / of youre diete
                                
                                  Atemprely / and namely in this hete
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                                  Bitwix vs two / nedeth no strange fare
                                
                                  ffare wel cosyn / god shilde yow fro care
                                
                                  And if þat any thyng by day or nyght
                                
                                  If it lye in my power / and my myght
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                                  That ye me wol comande in any wyse
                                
                                  It shal be doon / right as ye wol deuyse
                                
                                  ¶ O thyng er þat ye goon / if it may be
                                
                                  I wolde prey yow / for to lene me
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                                  An hundred frankes / for a wyke or tweye
                                
                                  ffor certein beestes / þat I moste beye
                                
                                  To stoore with a place þat is oures
                                
                                  God helpe me so / I wolde it were youres
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                                  I shal nat faille / surely at my day
                                
                                  Nat for a thousand frankes a Mile way
                                
                                  But lat this thyng be secree / I yow preye
                                
                                  ffor yet to nyght / thise beestes moot I beye
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                                  And fare now wel / myn owene cosyn deere
                                
                                  Graunt mercy / of youre cost / and of youre cheere

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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 398
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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