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

                                
                                  And many a brem and many a luce in stuwe
                                
                                  Wo was his cooke but his sauce were
                                
                                  Poynant and scharp and redy all his gere
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                                  His table dormant . in his halle alway
                                
                                  Stod redy couered all the longe day
                                
                                  At Sessions þer was he lord and sire
                                
                                  fful ofte tyme he was knight of þe schire
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                                  An anelas and a gisper al of silke
                                
                                  Heng at his girdel whit as morne mylke
                                
                                  A scherref had he ben and a comptour
                                
                                  Was nowher such a worþi vauasour
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                                  An haburdaissher and a Carpenter [folio 6a] 
                                
                                  A Webbe a Dyer and a Tapecer
                                
                                  And þei were cloþed alle in oo liuere
                                
                                  Of a solempne and a gret ffraternite
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                                  fful freissch and newe here gere a-piked was
                                
                                  Here knyfes nere chaped nought wiþ bras
                                
                                  But all wiþ siluer wrought ful clene and wel
                                
                                  Here gerdles and here pouches eueridel
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                                  Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys
                                
                                  To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys
                                
                                  Euerich for þe wisdom þat he can
                                
                                  Was schaply for to ben an Alderman
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                                  ffor Catell hadde þei ynough and rente
                                
                                  And eek here wyues wolde it wel assente
                                
                                  And elles certein þei were to blame
                                
                                  It is ful fair to be cleped ma dame
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                                  And gon to vigilies al bifore
                                
                                  And haue a mantel rialliche / bore
                                
                                  A Cook þei hadde wiþ hem for þe nones
                                
                                  To boyle þe chikenes with þe maryebones
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                                  And poudre marchānt tart and gallyngale
                                
                                  Wel kowde he know a draught of london ale /
                                
                                  He couþe rost and seþe and broile and frie
                                
                                  Maken mortreux and wel bake a pye
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                                  But gret harm was it as it þoughte me

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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 11
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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