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

                                
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                                  Aqueynted was so / with the goode man
                                
                                  Sith that hir firste knewliche bigan
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                                  That in his hous / as famulier was he
                                
                                  As it is possible / any freend to be
                                
                                  And for as muchel / as this goode man
                                
                                  And eek this Monk of which þat I bigan
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                                  Were bothe two yborn / in o village
                                
                                  The Monk hym claymeth / as for cosynage
                                
                                  And he agayn / he seith nat ones nay [folio 204b] 
                                
                                  But was as glad ther of / as fowel of day
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                                  ffor to his herte / it was a gret plesance
                                
                                  Thus been they knyt with eterne alliance
                                
                                  And ech of hem / gan oother / for tassure
                                
                                  Of bretherhede / whil þat hir lyf may dure
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                                  ¶ ffree was daun Iohn / and manly of dispence
                                
                                  As in that hous / and ful of diligence
                                
                                  To doon plesance / and also greet costage
                                
                                  He nat forgat to yeue the leeste page
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                                  In al that hous / but after hir degree
                                
                                  He yaf the lord / and sith al his meynee
                                
                                  Whan þat he cam / som manere honeste thyng
                                
                                  ffor which / they were as glad of his comyng
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                                  As fowel is fayn / whan þat the sonne vp riseth
                                
                                  Namoore of this as now / for it suffiseth
                                
                                  ¶ But so bifel / this Marchant on a day
                                
                                  Shoope hym / to make redy his array
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                                  Toward the town of Brugges / for to fare
                                
                                  To byen there / a porcion of ware
                                
                                  ffor which he hath / to Parys sent anon
                                
                                  A messager / and preyed hath daun Iohn
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                                  That he sholde come / to Seint Denys and pleye
                                
                                  With hym / and with his wyf a day or tweye
                                
                                  Er he to Brugges wente / in alle wise
                                
                                  ¶ This noble Monk of which I yow deuyse
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                                  Hath of his Abbot as hym list licence
                                
                                  By cause he was a man / of heigh prudence

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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 471
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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