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

                                
                                     [6-text p 390] 
                                  
                                  We fare as seiþ þapostil cloþ and foode
                                
                                  Sufficeþ vs þeyȝ þey ben not goode
                                
                                  The clennes and þe fastyng of ous ffreres
                                
                                  makeþ þat crist accepteþ oure prayeres
                                  Line 1884 
                                
                                  lo moyses .xl. dayes and .xl. nyght
                                
                                  ffasted or þat þe heihe god of might
                                
                                  Spak wiþ him in þe mount of Synay
                                
                                  With empty wombe fastyng many a day
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  Receyued he þe lawe þat was writen
                                
                                  Wiþ goddes fynger and helthe wel ȝe witen
                                
                                  In þe mont or elles er he hadde eny speche
                                
                                  With heyhe god þat is oure lyues leche
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  he fasted longe and was in contemplance
                                
                                  And aaron þat hadde þe temple of god in gouernance
                                
                                  And eek þat oþer prestes euerichon
                                
                                  In-to þe temple whan þey scholden gon
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  To praye for þe poeple and do seruise [folio 124a] 
                                
                                  They nolden drynken in no maner wise/
                                
                                  No drynk þe which hem mighte drunke make
                                
                                  But euere in abstynence to preye and wake
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  lest þat þey deyede tak heede what I seye
                                
                                  But þey ben sobre þat for þe poeple preye
                                
                                  Ware þat I say no more for it suffiseþ
                                
                                  Oure lord ihesus / as holy god deuyseþ
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  ȝiueþ ous ensample of fastyng and prayeres
                                
                                  Therfore we mendinantz we pouere freres
                                
                                  Ben wedded to pouert and to continence
                                
                                  To charite humblesse and also pacience
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  To persecucion for rightwisnesse /
                                
                                  To wepyng misericorde and clennesse
                                
                                  And þerfore may ȝe see þat oure prayeres
                                
                                  I speke of vs we mendenante ffreres
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Ben to þe hihe god more acceptable
                                
                                  Than ȝoures wiþ ȝoure feste at þe table
                                
                                  ffro paradys first if I schal nought lye
                                
                                  Was man out chaced for his glotonye

                                  Line 1916

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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 269
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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