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

                                
                                  Ther koude no man / brynge hym in arrerage
                                
                                  Ther nas Baillyf. hierde / nor oother hyne
                                
                                  That he ne knew / his sleyghte / and his couyne
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                                  They weere adrad of hym / as of the deeth
                                
                                  His wonyng was ful faire vp on an heeth
                                
                                  With greene trees / shadwed was his place
                                
                                  He koude bettre / than his lord purchace
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                                  fful riche / he was astoored pryuely
                                
                                  His lord / wel koude he plesen subtilly
                                
                                  To yeue / and leene hym / of his owene good
                                
                                  And haue a thank. and yet a coote and hood
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                                  In youthe / he lerned hadde / a good Mister
                                
                                  He was a wel good wrighte / a Carpenter
                                
                                  This Reue sat vp on a wel good Stot
                                
                                  That was a Pomely gray / and highte Scot
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                                  A long Surcote of Pers / vp on he haade
                                
                                  And by his syde / he baar a rusty blaade
                                
                                  Of Northfolk was this Reue / of which I telle
                                
                                  Bisyde a town / men clepyn Baldeswelle
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                                  Tukked he was / as is a ffrere aboute
                                
                                  And euere he rood / the hyndreste of oure route
                                
                                  ¶ A Somonour / was ther with vs / in that place [Somonour.] 
                                
                                  That hadde / a fyr-reed Cherubynnes face
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                                  ffor Sawceflewm he was / with eyen narwe
                                
                                  And hoot he was / and lecherous as a Sparwe
                                
                                  With scaled browes blake / and pyled berd
                                
                                  Of his visage / children weere aferd
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                                  Ther nas quyk siluer / lytarge / ne Brymstoon
                                
                                  Borace / Ceruce / ne Oille of Tartre noon
                                
                                  Ne oynement. that wolde clense and byte [folio 10a] 
                                
                                  That hym myghte helpen / of his whelkes whyte
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                                  Nor of the knobbes / sittynge on his chekes
                                
                                  Wel loued he garlek oynons and eek lekes
                                
                                  And for to drynke strong wyn / reed as blood
                                
                                  Thanne wolde he speke / and crye as he were wood
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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 18
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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