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

                                
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                                  And chaast was man / in Paradys certeyn
                                
                                  ¶ But herkne Thomas / what I shal seyn
                                
                                  I ne haue no text of it as I suppose
                                
                                  But I shal fynde it in a maner glose
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                                  That specially / oure swete lord Ihesus
                                
                                  Spak this by freres / whan he seyde thus
                                
                                  Blessed be they / that poure in Spirit been
                                
                                  And so forth / in the gospel / may ye seen
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                                  Wher it be likker / oure profession
                                
                                  Or hire / that swymmen in possession
                                
                                  ffy on hir pompe / and hir glotonye
                                
                                  And for hir lewednesse / I hem diffye
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                                  Me thynketh / they been lyk Iouynyan
                                
                                  ffat as a whale / and walkyng as a swan
                                
                                  Al vynolent as Botel in the Spence
                                
                                  Hir preyere is / of ful greet reuerence
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                                  Whan they for soules / seye the psalm of Dauit
                                
                                  Lo buf they seye / cor meum eructauit
                                
                                  Who folweth cristes gospel / and his foore
                                
                                  But we that humble been / and chaast/ and poore
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                                  Werkers of goddes word / nat Auditours
                                
                                  Ther fore / right as an hauk / vp at a sours
                                
                                  Vp spryngeth in-to theyr / right so prayeres
                                
                                  Of charitable / and chaste bisy freres
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                                  Maken hir sours / to goddes erys two
                                
                                  Thomas / Thomas / so mote I ryde or go
                                
                                  And by that lord / that clepid is Seint yue
                                
                                  Nere thow oure brother / sholdestow nat thryue
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                                  [In [[Rats]]  [folio 82b] ] oure chapitre / praye we day and nyght
                                
                                  To crist that he thee sende / heele and myght
                                
                                  Thy body / for to welden hastily
                                
                                  ¶ God woot quod he / no thyng ther-of feele I
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                                  As help me crist as I in fewe yeres
                                
                                  Haue spended / vp-on diuerse manere freres
                                
                                  fful many a pound / yet fare I neuere the bet
                                
                                  Certeyn / my good haue I almoost biset

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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 186
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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