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

                                
                                  He was a verray / perfit practisour
                                
                                  The cause yknowe / and of his harm the roote
                                
                                  Anoon he yaf / the sike man his boote
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  ¶ fful redy hadde he / hise Apothecaryes
                                
                                  To senden hym / his drogges / and his letuaryes
                                
                                  ffor eech of hem / maade oother for to wynne
                                
                                  Hir frendshipe / was noght newe to bigynne
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  Wel knew he / the oolde Esculapyus
                                
                                  And Discorides / and eek Rusus
                                
                                  Olde ypocras / Haly / and Galyen [folio 7b] 
                                
                                  Serapion / Razis / and Avycen
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  Auerroys / Damascien / and Constantyn
                                
                                  Bernard / and Gatesden / and Gilbertyn
                                
                                  Of his diete / mesurable was hee
                                
                                  ffor it was / of no superfluytee
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                                  But of greet norissynge / and digestible
                                
                                  His studye / was but litel on the Bible
                                
                                  In sangwyn and in Pers / he clad was al
                                
                                  Lyned with Taffata / and with Sendal
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  And yet he was / but esy of dispence
                                
                                  He kepte / þat he wan in pestilence
                                
                                  ffor gold in Phisyk. is a Cordial
                                
                                  Ther fore / he loued gold in special
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                                  ¶ A good wyf was ther / of bisyde Bathe [The Goode Wyf of bisyde Bathe.] 
                                
                                  But she was som del deef and that was scathe
                                
                                  Of clooth makynge / she hadde swich an haunt
                                
                                  She passed hem / of Ipres / and of Gaunt
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  In al the parysshe / wyf ne was ther noon
                                
                                  That to the offrynge / bifore hire sholde goon
                                
                                  And if ther dide / certeyn / so wrooth was shee
                                
                                  That she was / out of alle charitee
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                                  Hir Couerchiefes / ful fyne weere of grownd
                                
                                  I dorste swere / they weyeden. ten pownd
                                
                                  That on a Sonday / weeren vp on hir heed
                                
                                  Hir hosen weeren / of fyn Scarlet reed
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                                  fful streyte yteyd / and shoes / ful moyste & newe

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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 13
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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