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

                                
                                     [6-text p 392] 
                                  
                                  ffar wel my golde for it is al a-go
                                
                                  The ffrere answerde o Thomas why dost þou so
                                
                                  What needeþ ȝou diuerse freres to seche
                                
                                  What needeþ him þat haþ a parfit leche
                                  Line 1956 
                                
                                  To sechen oþer leches in þe toun
                                
                                  ȝour inconstance is ȝour confusioun
                                
                                  holde ȝe þen me or elles oure couent
                                
                                  To preye for ȝou ben insufficient
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  Thomas þat Iape is not worþ a myte
                                
                                  ȝoure maladye is for ȝe han ȝiuen vs so lite
                                
                                  A ȝif þat couent half a quarter otes
                                
                                  A ȝiue hem one or tuo grotes
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  A ȝiue þe frere a peny and let him go
                                
                                  Nay nay Thomas it may no þing be so
                                
                                  What is a ferþing worþ parted in twelue
                                
                                  lo eche þing þat is oned by himselue
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  Is more straunge þen when it is skatered [folio 125a] 
                                
                                  Thomas of me þou schalt nat be flatered
                                
                                  þou woldest oure labour haue for nought
                                
                                  The hihe god þat al þis world haþ wrought
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  Seiþ þat þe werkman is worþi his hyre
                                
                                  Thomas nought of ȝour tresore I desire
                                
                                  As for my self but þat alle oure couent
                                
                                  To pray for ȝou is ay so diligent
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  And for to bulden cristes oughne chirche
                                
                                  Thomas if ȝe wol lerne for to wirche
                                
                                  Of buldyng vp of chirches may ȝe fynde
                                
                                  If it be good in Thomas lijf of Inde
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  Ȝe ligge heer ful of anger and of Ire
                                
                                  With þe which þe deuyl sette ȝoure ers a fyre
                                
                                  And chyden heere þis sely Innocent
                                
                                  Ȝoure wijf þat is so meeke and pacient
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  And þerfore Thomas trowe me if ȝou list
                                
                                  Ne stryue not wiþ þy wijf al for þe beste
                                
                                  And bere þis word awey now by þy feith
                                
                                  Touchinge such þing lo what þe wise man seiþ

                                  Line 1988

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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 271
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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