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

                                
                                     [6-text p 550] 
                                  
                                  Telle how he doþ I pray þe hertely
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                                  Siþens þat he is so crafty and so sly
                                
                                  Wher dwellen ȝe if to telle be
                                
                                  In Subarbes of a toun quod he
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                                  lurkyng in hernes and in lanes blynde
                                
                                  Where þise Robbers and þeeues be kynde
                                
                                  holden here preuy ferful resydence
                                
                                  As þay þat dur nat schewe here presence
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                                  So fare we if I schal saye þe soþe
                                
                                  ȝit quod oure hoste lat me talke toþe
                                
                                  Why art þou discoloured on þy face
                                
                                  Peter quod he god ȝiue hit harde grace
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                                  I am so vsed in þe fyre to blowe
                                
                                  That it haþ chaunged my colour as I trowe [folio 179b] 
                                
                                  I nam nat wont in myrour to prye
                                
                                  But swynke sore and lerne to multiplye
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                                  We bloundren euer and pouren in þe fyr
                                
                                  And for al þat we faillen of oure desir
                                
                                  ffor euer we lacken oure conclusion
                                
                                  To moche folk we ben but Illusion
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                                  And borwe gold be it a pound or tuo
                                
                                  Or ten or twelue or manye sommes mo
                                
                                  And make hem wenen atte leste weye
                                
                                  þat of a pound we couþe make tweye
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                                  ȝit is it fals and ay we han good hope
                                
                                  It for to don and after it we grope
                                
                                  But þat science is so fer vs biforn
                                
                                  We mowe not al þough we hadde it sworn
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                                  It ouertake it [[a second it scratcht out]]  slyt awey so faste
                                
                                  It wole us make beggeres atte laste
                                
                                  Whil þis ȝoman was þus in þis talking
                                
                                  þis chanon drough him ner and herde alle þing
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                                  Which þat þis ȝoman spak for suspecion
                                
                                  Of mennes speche euere hadde þis Chanon
                                
                                  ffor Caton seith he þat gulty is
                                
                                  Demeþ alle þing be spoke of him ywys

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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 400
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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