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

                                    
                                      Reuel and trouthe / as in a lowe degree
                                    
                                      They been ful wrothe al day / as men may see
                                    
                                      ¶ This ioly Prentys / with his Maister bood
                                    
                                      Til he were neigh / out of his prentishood
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                                      Al were he snybbed / bothe erly and late
                                    
                                      And som tyme / lad with reuel to Newgate
                                    
                                      But atte laste / his maister hym bithoghte
                                    
                                      Vp on a day / whan he his papir soghte
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                                      Of a prouerbe / that seith this same word
                                    
                                      Wel bet is roten appul / out of hoord
                                    
                                      Than þat it rotte / al the remenaunt
                                    
                                      So fareth it / by a riotous seruaunt
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                                      It is ful lasse harm / to lete hym pace
                                    
                                      Than he shende / alle the seruantz in the place
                                    
                                      Ther fore / his maister gaf hym acquitaunce
                                    
                                      And bad hym go / with sorw / and with meschaunce
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                                      And thus this ioly prentys / hadde his leeue
                                    
                                      Now lat hym riote / al the nyght or leeue
                                    
                                      And for ther nys no theef / with-oute a lowke
                                    
                                      That helpeth hym / to wasten and to sowke
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                                      Of that he brybe kan / or borwe may
                                    
                                      Anon / he sente his bed / and his array
                                    
                                      Vn to a compeer / of his owene sort
                                    
                                      That loued dees / and reuel / and disport
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                                      And hadde a wyf / that heeld for contenaunce
                                    
                                      A shoppe / and swyued for hir sustenaunce
                                    
                                      Of this Cokes tale
                                    
                                      maked Chaucer na
                                    
                                      moore [in the left margin] [[Rest of the page blank.]]

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 128
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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