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

                                
                                  And ther with al / he broghte vs out of towne
                                
                                  ¶ A gentil Maunciple / was ther / of a Temple [Maunciple.] 
                                
                                  Of which / Achatours myghte take exemple
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                                  ffor to been wyse / in byynge of vitaille
                                
                                  ffor wheither þat he payde / or took by taille
                                
                                  Algate he wayted so / in his achaat
                                
                                  That he was ay biforn / and in good staat
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                                  ¶ Now is nat that of god / a ful greet grace
                                
                                  That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace
                                
                                  The wysdom / of an heepe / of lerned men
                                
                                  Of Maistres hadde he mo / than thryes ten
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                                  That weeren of lawe / expert and curious
                                
                                  Of whiche / ther weere a dozeyne / in that hous
                                
                                  Worthy / to been stywardes / of rente / and lond
                                
                                  Of any lord / that is in Engelond
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                                  To make hym lyue / by his propre good
                                
                                  In honour dettelees / but if he weere wood
                                
                                  Or lyue as scarsly / as hym lyst desire
                                
                                  And able / for to helpen al a Shire
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                                  In any caas / that myghte falle or happe
                                
                                  And yet this Maunciple / sette hir aller cappe
                                
                                  ¶ The Reue / was a sclendre coleryk man [Reue] 
                                
                                  His beerd was shaue / as neigh as euer he kan
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                                  His heer was by his eerys / ful rownd yshorn
                                
                                  His tope was dokked / lyk a preest byforn
                                
                                  fful longe weere hise legges / and ful leene [folio 9b] 
                                
                                  Ylik a staf. ther was no calf yseene
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                                  Wel koude he keepe / a Gerner and a Bynne
                                
                                  Ther was noon Auditour / koude on hym wynne
                                
                                  Wel wiste he / by the droghte and by the reyn
                                
                                  The yeldynge / of his seed / and of his greyn
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                                  His lordes sheepe / his neet / his dayerye
                                
                                  His swyn / his hors / his stoor / and his pultrye
                                
                                  Was hooly / in this Reues gouernynge
                                
                                  And by his couenant. yaf the rekenynge
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                                  Syn that his loord / was twenty yeer of age

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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 17
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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