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

                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  A fewe termes hadde he / two / or thre
                                
                                  That he hadde lerned / out of som decree
                                  Line 640 
                                
                                  No wonder is / he herde it al the day
                                
                                  And eek ye knowe wel / how þat a Iay
                                
                                  Kan clepen watte / as wel as kan the Pope
                                
                                  But who so koude / in oother thyng hym grope
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                                  Thanne hadde he spent al his philosophie
                                
                                  Ay Questio quid iuris wolde he crye
                                
                                  ¶ He was a gentil harlot and a kynde
                                
                                  A bettre felawe / sholde men noght fynde
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                                  He wolde suffre / for a quart of wyn
                                
                                  A good felawe / to haue his concubyn
                                
                                  A twelf monthe / and excusen hym at the fulle
                                
                                  fful pryuely / a fynch eek koude he pulle
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                                  And if he foond owher / a good felawe
                                
                                  He wolde techen hym / to haue noon awe
                                
                                  In swich caas / of the Ercedeknes curs
                                
                                  But if a mannes soule / were in his purs
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                                  ffor in his purs / he sholde ypunysshed be
                                
                                  Purs is the Ercedeknes helle / seyde he
                                
                                  ¶ But wel I woot he lyed right in dede
                                
                                  Of cursyng oghte ech gilty man [to] drede
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                                  ffor curs wol sle / right as assoillyng sauyth
                                
                                  And also / war hym of a significauit /
                                
                                  ¶ In daunger hadde he / at his owene gyse
                                
                                  The yonge gerles / of the diocise
                                  Line 664 
                                
                                  And knew hir conseil / and was al hir reed
                                
                                  A gerland / hadde he set vp on his heed
                                
                                  As greet. as it were / for an Ale stake
                                
                                  A bokeler / hadde he maad hym of a cake
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                                  ¶ With hym ther rood / a gentil Pardoner [Pardoner.] 
                                
                                  Of Rouncyual / his freend / and his comper
                                
                                  That streight was comen / fro the Court of Rome
                                
                                  fful loude he soong com hyder loue to me
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                                  This Somonour baar to hym / a styf burdoun [folio 10b]

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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 19
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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