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

That on his Shyne / a Mormal hadde he ffor Blankmanger / that maade he with the beste ¶ A Shipman was ther / wonyng fer by weste [Shipman.] ffor aught I woot he was of Dertemouthe 389 He rood vp on a Rouncy / as he kouthe In a gowne of faldyng to the knee [folio 7a] A daggere hangynge on a laas / hadde he 392 Aboute his nekke / vnder his arm adown The hoote Somer / hadde maad his hewe al brown And certeynly / he was a good felawe fful many a draghte of wyn / hadde he drawe 396 ffro Burdeuxward / whil þat the Chapman sleepe Of nyce conscience / took he no keepe If þat he faght and hadde the hyer hond By watre he sente hem hoom / to euery lond 400 But of his craft to rekene wel his tydes His stremys / and his daungers hym bisydes His herberwe and his moone / his lodmenage Ther was noon swich / from hulle to Cartage 404 Hardy he was / and wys to vndertake With many a tempest hadde his beerd been shake He knew alle the hauenes / as they weere ffro Gootlond / to the cape of ffynysteere 408 And euery cryke / in Britaigne / and in Spaigne His barge / y-clepyd was the Mawdelayne ¶ With vs / ther was / a Doctour of Phisyk [Doctour of Phisyk/.] In al this world / ne was ther noon hym lyk To speken of Phisyk and of Surgerye 413 ffor he was grounded / in Astronomye He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel In houres / by his magyk natureel 416 Wel koude he fortunen / the ascendent Of hise ymages / for his pacient He knew the cause / of euery maladye Weere it of hoot or coold / or moyste / or drye 420 And where it engendred / and of what humour
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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