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

                                
                                  ¶ A frere ther was / a wantowne and a merye, [¶ ffrere.] 
                                
                                  A lymytour / a ful solempne man
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                                  In alle the ordres foure / is noon þat kan
                                
                                  So muche of daliaunce / and fair langage
                                
                                  He hadde maked / ful many a mariage
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                                  Of yonge wommen / at his owene cost
                                
                                  Vn to his ordre / he was a noble post
                                
                                  fful wel biloued / and famylier was hee
                                
                                  With ffrankeleyns / ouer al in his contree
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                                  And eek with worthy wommen / of the town
                                
                                  ffor he hadde / power of confessioun
                                
                                  As seyde him self / moore than a curaat
                                
                                  ffor of his ordre / he was licenciaat
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                                  fful swetely / herde he confessioun
                                
                                  And plesant. was his absolucioun
                                
                                  He was an esy man / to yeue penaunce
                                
                                  Ther as he wiste / to haue a good pitaunce
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                                  ffor vn to a poure ordre / for to yeue
                                
                                  Is signe / that a man / is wel yshryue
                                
                                  ffor if he yaf he dorste make auaunt
                                
                                  He wiste / þat a man was repentaunt
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                                  ffor many a man / so hard is of his herte
                                
                                  He may nat weepe / thogh þat he soore smerte
                                
                                  Ther fore / in stede of wepynge / and preyeres
                                
                                  Men moote yeue siluer / to the poure freres
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                                  ¶ His typet was ay farsed ful of knyues [folio 5a] 
                                
                                  And pynnes / for to yeuen faire wyues
                                
                                  And certeynly / he hadde a murye noote
                                
                                  Wel koude he synge / and pleyen on a roote
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                                  Of yeddynges / he bar outrely the prys
                                
                                  His nekke whit was / as the flour delys
                                
                                  Ther to he stroong was / as a Champioun
                                
                                  He knew the tauernes wel in euery town
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                                  And euery hostiler / and Tappestere
                                
                                  Bet / than a lazer / or a beggestere
                                
                                  ffor vn to swich a worthy man / as he

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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 7
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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