The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  ȝet may þat heye god and so hope I
                                
                                  Graunte me grace to lyue vertuously
                                
                                  Thanne am I gentil whan þat I begynne
                                
                                  To lyuen vertuously and weyuen synne
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                                  And þer as ye of pouert me repreue
                                
                                  The hihe god on whom þat we bileeue [folio 106a]  [for 115a] 
                                
                                  In wilful pouert chese to leese his lijf [Nota de paupertate] 
                                
                                  And certes euery man and mayde and wijf
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                                  May vnderstonde ihesu heuen king
                                
                                  Ne wolde not chese a vicious lyuyng
                                
                                  Glad pouert is an honest þing certeyn
                                
                                  þis wille Senec/ and oþer clerkes sein
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                                  Who so þat holt him payed of his pouert
                                
                                  I holde him riche al hadde he nought cert
                                
                                  he þat coueyteþ is a pouere wight
                                
                                  ffor he wolde han þat nys nat in his might
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                                  But he þat nought haþ ne coueyteþ to haue
                                
                                  Is riche al þough men holde him but a knaue
                                
                                  Verray pouert is synne proprely
                                
                                  Iuuenal seiþ of pouert myrily
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                                  The pouere man whan he goþ by þe way
                                
                                  Bifore þe þeues he may synge and play
                                
                                  Pouert is hatel good and as I gesse /
                                
                                  A ful gret brynger out of busynesse
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                                  A gret amender eek of Sapience
                                
                                  To him þat lackeþ it in pacience
                                
                                  Pouert is þis al þough it seme alenge
                                
                                  Possession þat no wight wol chalenge
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                                  Pouert ful often whan a man is lowe
                                
                                  Makeþ his god and eek himself to knowe
                                
                                  Pouert a spectacle is as þinkeþ me
                                
                                  þurgh which he may his verray freendes se
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                                  And þerfore syn þat I you nought greue
                                
                                  Of my pouerte nomore me repreue
                                
                                  Now sire of eelde ȝe reproeue me
                                
                                  And certes sire þough non auctorite

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 247
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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