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

                                
                                     [6-text p 562] 
                                  
                                  Certes quod he no þing anoyeth me
                                
                                  To lene a man a noble or tuo or þre
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                                  Or what þing were in my possession
                                
                                  Whan he so trewe is of condicion
                                
                                  þat in no wise he breke wole his day
                                
                                  To swich a man I can neuer say nay
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                                  What quod þis Chanon scholde I be vntrewe
                                
                                  Nay þat were þing fallen al of þe newe
                                
                                  Trouþe is a þing þat I wol euer kepe /
                                
                                  Vnto þe day in which þat I schal crepe
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                                  in to my graue and elles god forbede
                                
                                  Bileeueþ þis as siker as is ȝoure Crede
                                
                                  God þanke I and in good tyme be it sayd
                                
                                  þat þer was neuer man ȝit euel payd
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                                  ffor gold ne siluer þat he to me lente
                                
                                  Ne neuere falshede in myn herte I mente
                                
                                  And sire quod he now of my priuyte
                                
                                  Siþens ȝe so goodlich haue ben to me
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                                  And kiþed to me so gret gentilnesse
                                
                                  Somwhat to quite with ȝoure kyndenesse
                                
                                  I wol ȝou schewe and if ȝou lest to leere /
                                
                                  I schal it schewe to ȝou anon right heere
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                                  how I kan worchen in philosophie
                                
                                  Takeþ good heed ȝe schuln seen wel at ye
                                
                                  That I wol don a maystry ar I go
                                
                                  ȝe quoþ þe prest / ȝe sire and wil ȝe so
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                                  Marie þer of I pray ȝou hertily
                                
                                  At ȝoure comaundement sire trewely [folio 185a] 
                                
                                  Quoþ þe Chanon and elles god forbede
                                
                                  lo how þis þeef couþe his seruise beede
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                                  fful soþ it is þat such profred seruise
                                
                                  Stynkeþ as witnessen þise olde wise
                                
                                  And þat ful sone I wol it verefye
                                
                                  In þis Chanon is roote of alle treccherie
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                                  þat eueremore delyt haþ and gladnesse/
                                
                                  Suche feendly þoughtes in his herte impresse /

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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 412
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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