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

                                
                                  Wel koude he / in eschaunge / sheeldes selle
                                
                                  This worthy man / ful wel his wit bisette
                                
                                  Ther wiste no wight. that he was in dette
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                                  So estaatly was he / of his gouernaunce
                                
                                  With his bargaynes / and with his cheuysaunce
                                
                                  ffor soothe / he was a worthy man with alle
                                
                                  But sooth to seyn / I noot how men hym calle
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                                  ¶ A Clerc ther was / of Oxenford also [¶ Clerc/ of Oxenforde.] 
                                
                                  That vn to logyk. hadde longe ygo
                                
                                  As leene was his hors / as is a rake
                                
                                  And he was noght right fat I vndertake
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                                  But looked holwe / and ther to sobrely
                                
                                  fful threedbaare / was his ouereste Courtepy
                                
                                  ffor he hadde / geten hym yet no benefice
                                
                                  Ne was so worldly / for to haue office
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                                  For hym was leuere / haue at his beddes heed
                                
                                  Twenty bookes / clad / in blak / or reed
                                
                                  Of Aristotle / and his Philosophye
                                
                                  Than robes riche / or ffithele / or gay Sautrye
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                                  But al be / that he was a Philosophre
                                
                                  Yet hadde he / but litel gold in Cofre
                                
                                  But al that he myghte / of his frendes hente
                                
                                  On bookes / and on lernynge / he it spente
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                                  And bisily / gan for the soules preye
                                
                                  Of hem / that yaf hym / wher with to scoleye
                                
                                  Of studye / took he moost cure and moost heede
                                
                                  Noght oo word spak he / moore than was neede
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                                  And that was spoke / in forme / and reuerence
                                
                                  And short and quyk and ful of heigh sentence
                                
                                  Sownynge in moral vertu / was his speche
                                
                                  And gladly wolde he lerne / and gladly teche
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                                  ¶ A Sergeaunt of lawe / waar / and wys [¶ Sergeaunt of Lawe.] 
                                
                                  That often / hadde been at the Parvys
                                
                                  Ther was also / ful ryche of excellence [folio 6a] 
                                
                                  Discreet he was / and of greet reuerence
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                                  He seemed swich / hise wordes weeren so Wyse

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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 9
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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