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

                                
                                     [6-text p 569] 
                                  
                                  And þe chanon he profred eft sone
                                
                                  Body and good ȝe quod þe Chanōn soone
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                                  þough pore I be crafty þou schalt/ me fynde
                                
                                  I warne þe ȝit is þer more behynde
                                
                                  Is þer eny coper here Inne seyde he
                                
                                  ȝe sire quod þe prest I trowe þer bee
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                                  Elles go bey som and þat as swithe
                                
                                  Now sire go forþ þy way and hy the
                                
                                  And went his way and wiþ þis coper he cam
                                
                                  And þis Chanōn in his hond it nam
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                                  And of þat coper weyde out but an vnce
                                
                                  Al to symple is my tonge to pronounce
                                
                                  his moustre and his wit þe doublenesse
                                
                                  Of þis Chanon roote of Cursednesse
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                                  he semyd freendly to hem þat knewe him nought
                                
                                  But he was feendly boþe in werk and þouȝt
                                
                                  It wyrieþ me to telle of his falsnesse
                                
                                  And naþeles ȝet wol I it expresse
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                                  To þat entent þat men may be war þerby
                                
                                  And for non oþer cause trewely
                                
                                  he putte þis vnce of coper in to þe Crosselette
                                
                                  And of þe fyur as swiþe he haþ it sette
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                                  And kast in poudre and made þe prest to blowe
                                
                                  And in his worching for to stoupe lowe
                                
                                  As he dide erst and al nas but a Iape
                                
                                  Right as him liste þe prest he made his ape
                                  Line 1313 
                                
                                  And afterward in to þe Ingot he it caste
                                
                                  And in þe panne putte it atte laste / [folio 188b] 
                                
                                  Of water and in he put his owne hand
                                
                                  And in his sleeue as ȝe byforn hand
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                                  herde me telle he hadde a siluer teyne
                                
                                  he slyly took it out þis cursed heyne
                                
                                  vnwetyng þis prest of his false craft
                                
                                  And in þe pannes botme he haþ it laft
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                                  And in þe water rombleþ to and fro
                                
                                  And wonder pryuyly tok it vp also

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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 419
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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