The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 477]

APPENDIX TO GROUP E, § 2. [? Original, but rejected, End-Link to the Clerk's Tale, perhaps following l. 1162, with which the paraphrase of Petrarch's Latin ends, or l. 1169.]

This worthi clerk whan endede was his tale Oure ost seyde & swor by godys bonys Me were leuere than a barel ale Myn wif at hom hadde herd this legende onys Line 4 This was a gentil tale for the nonys As to myn purpos woste ȝe myn wille But thyng that wil nat be lat it be stille Line 7