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

                                
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                                  Nedeth namoore to speke of it seith he
                                
                                  But if me list of myn humylitee
                                
                                  ¶ Yif me thanne of thy gold / to make oure cloystre
                                
                                  Quod he / for many a Muscle / and many an Oystre
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                                  Whan othere men / han been ful wel at eyse
                                
                                  Hath been oure foode / oure Cloystre for to reyse
                                
                                  And yet god woot vnnethe the fundement/
                                
                                  Parfourned is / ne of oure pauement
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                                  [ [Rats.]  [folio 84b] N]ys nat a tyle / yet with-Inne oure wones
                                
                                  By god / we owen fourty pound for stones
                                
                                  Now help Thomas / for hym þat harwed helle
                                
                                  Or ellis mote we / oure bookes selle
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                                  And if yow lakke / oure predicacion
                                
                                  Thanne gooth the world / al to destruccion
                                
                                  ffor who so / fro this world / wolde vs bireue
                                
                                  So god me saue / Thomas by youre leue
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                                  He wolde bireue / out of the world the sonne
                                
                                  ffor who kan teche / and werchen as we konne
                                
                                  And that is nat of litel tyme quod he
                                
                                  But sith Elie was / or Elize
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                                  Han freres been / that fynde I of record
                                
                                  In charitee / thonked be oure lord
                                
                                  Now Thomas / help for Seinte charitee
                                
                                  And down anon / he set hym on his knee
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                                  ¶ This sike man / weex wel neigh wood for Ire
                                
                                  He wolde / that the frere / hadde been afire
                                
                                  With his false dissimulacion
                                
                                  Swich thyng/ as is in my possession
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                                  Quod he / that may I yeue and noon oother
                                
                                  Ye sey me thus / how that I am youre brother
                                
                                  ¶ Ye certes quod the frere / trusteth wel
                                
                                  I took oure dame / oure lettre with oure sel
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                                  ¶ Now wel quod he / and som what shal I yeue
                                
                                  Vn-to youre holy Couent whil I lyue
                                
                                  And in thyn hand / thow shalt it han anon
                                
                                  On this condicion / and oother noon

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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 191
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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