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

                                
                                     [6-text p 558] 
                                  
                                  By cause oure fyr was nat made of bech
                                
                                  þat is þe cause non oþer so peech
                                  Line 929 
                                
                                  I can not telle wher-on it is a long
                                
                                  But wel I wot gret stryf is vs among
                                
                                  What quod my lord þer is nomore to done /
                                
                                  Of þise periles I wil be war eft sone /
                                  Line 933 
                                
                                  I am right syker þat þe pot was crased
                                
                                  Be as be may be ȝe no þing amased
                                
                                  As vsage is let swope þe floor as swyþe
                                
                                  Pluk vp ȝour herte and be ȝe glad and bliþe
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                                  The mullok on an heep y-swoped was
                                
                                  And on þe floor cast a kaneuas
                                
                                  And al þis mullok in a Syue y-þrowe
                                
                                  And y-sifted and y-plucked many a þrowe
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                                  Parde quod oon som what of oure metal
                                
                                  ȝet is þer heere þough we haue not all
                                
                                  And þough þis þing myshapped haþ as now
                                
                                  Anoþer tyme it may be wel ynow
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                                  vs moste putte oure good in aduenture /
                                
                                  A marchant parde may not ay endure /
                                
                                  Trustneþ me wel in his prosperite
                                
                                  Som tyme his good is drowned in þe see /
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                                  And som tyme comeþ it sauf vnto þe londe
                                
                                  Pees quod my lord þe nexte tyme I wol fonde
                                
                                  To bringe oure crafte alle in anoþer plyt
                                
                                  And but I do sires lat me haue þe wyte
                                  Line 953 
                                
                                  Ther was defaute in somwhat wel I woot
                                
                                  Anoþer seyde þe fyr was ouer hoot [folio 183b] 
                                
                                  But be it hoot or cold I dar seye þis
                                
                                  þat we concluden eueremore amys /
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                                  We faille of þat which þat we wolde haue /
                                
                                  And in oure madnesse eueremore we raue
                                
                                  And whan we ben togidere euerich on
                                
                                  Euery man semeþ as wys as Salomon
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                                  But alle þing which þat semeþ as þe goolde /
                                
                                  Is nat golde as I haue herd it tolde /

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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 408
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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