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

                                
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                                  vnto þis philosofre how schal I do
                                
                                  I se no more but þat I am fordo /
                                
                                  Myn heritage moot I needes selle
                                
                                  And ben a beggere here may I no lenger dwelle
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                                  And schamen al my kynrede in þis place
                                
                                  But I of him may gete bettre grace /
                                
                                  [but natheles / I wol of him assaye [[MS Arch. Seld. B. 14]] 
                                
                                  at certeyne dayes / yere bi yere to paye]
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                                  I wole þonke him of his grete curtesye
                                
                                  My trouþe wol I kepe I wol nouȝt lye
                                
                                  Wiþ herte sore he goþ vnto his coffre
                                
                                  And broughte gold vnto his philosophre
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                                  The value of .v. hundred pound I gesse
                                
                                  And him besecheþ of his gentilnesse
                                
                                  To graunte him dayes of þe remenant
                                
                                  And maister I dar wel make auaunt
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                                  I fayled neuer my trouþe as ȝit
                                
                                  ffor sikerly my dettes schal be quyt
                                
                                  Towardes ȝou how euer þat I fare
                                
                                  To gon abegged in my kirtel bare
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                                  But wolde ȝe fouche sauf vpon suerte
                                
                                  Two ȝere or þre to respiten me
                                
                                  þenne were I wel for elles moste I selle / [[a leaf out of the Corpus MS.]] 
                                
                                  [myn heritage / ther is no more to telle [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 261b] 
                                
                                  this Philosophre soburly answerde
                                
                                  and seide thus / whan he these wordes herde
                                
                                  haue I nat holden couenaunt / vn-to the
                                
                                  yis certes / wel & trewely / quod he
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                                  hast thow nat had thi lady / as the liketh
                                
                                  no no quod he / & sorowfully he siketh
                                
                                  what was the cause / telle me if thou can
                                
                                  Aurelius his tale / anoon bigan
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                                  and tolde him al / as ye han herde bifore
                                
                                  hit nedith nat / to rehersen it no more
                                
                                  he seide Arueragus / of gentilnesse
                                
                                  had leuer dien / in sorow & distresse

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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 375
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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