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

                                
                                  Iustice he was / ful often in Assise
                                
                                  By patente / and by pleyn commissioun
                                
                                  ffor his science / and for his heigh renoun
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                                  Of fees and robes / hadde he many oon
                                
                                  So greet a purchasour / was nowher noon
                                
                                  Al was fee symple / to hym / in effect
                                
                                  His purchasyng myghte nat been infect
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                                  Nowher so bisy a man as he / ther nas
                                
                                  And yet he seemed / bisyer than he was
                                
                                  In termes / hadde he caas / and doomes alle
                                
                                  That from tyme of kyng william / weere falle
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                                  Ther to / he koude endite / and make a thyng
                                
                                  Ther koude no wight pynchen at his writyng
                                
                                  And euery statut. koude he pleyn by roote
                                
                                  He rood but hoomly / in a medlee coote
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                                  Girt with a ceynt of sylk. with barres smale
                                
                                  Of his array / telle I no lenger tale
                                
                                  ¶ A ffrankeleyn / was in his compaignye [¶ ffrankeleyn.] 
                                
                                  Whit was his berd / as is the dayesye
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                                  Of his complexcion / he was sangwyn
                                
                                  Wel loued he by the morwe / a sope in wyn
                                
                                  To lyuen in delyt was euere his wone
                                
                                  ffor he was / Epicurus owene sone
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                                  That heeld opynyon / þat pleyn delit
                                
                                  Was verray / felicitee parfit
                                
                                  An housholdere / and that a greet was hee
                                
                                  Seint Iulyan he was / in his contree
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                                  His breed / his ale / was alweys after oon
                                
                                  A bettre envyned man / was neuere noon
                                
                                  With outen bake mete / was neuere his hous
                                
                                  Of fresshe fisshe / and flesshe / and that so plentevous
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                                  It snewed in his hous / of mete and drynke
                                
                                  Of alle deyntees / þat men koude bithynke
                                
                                  After / the sondry sesons / of the yeer
                                
                                  So chaunged he / his mete / and his soper
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                                  fful many a fat partrych / hadde he in Muwe

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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 10
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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