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

                                
                                     [6-text p 570] 
                                  
                                  þe coper teyne nought knowyng þis prest/
                                
                                  And hidde it and hente him by þe breest
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                                  And to him spak and þus sayde in his game
                                
                                  Stowpeþ a doun by god ȝe ben to blame
                                
                                  helpeþ me now as I dide ȝou whiler
                                
                                  Put in ȝoure hand and lokeþ what is þer
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                                  þis prest tok vp þis siluer teyne anon
                                
                                  And þanne seyde þe chanōn let vs gon
                                
                                  Wiþ þise þre teynes whiche þat we haue wrought
                                
                                  To som goldsmith and wite if it be ought
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                                  ffor by my faiþ I nolde for myn hond
                                
                                  But if þei were siluer fyn and good
                                
                                  And þat as swiþe proued schal it be
                                
                                  Vnto þe goldsmith wiþ þise teynes þre
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                                  þey wente and putte þise teynes in assay
                                
                                  To fyr and hamer might no man say nay
                                
                                  But þey were as hem ouȝte for to be
                                
                                  þis sottide prest who was gladder þan he
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                                  Was neuer bryd gladder aȝeins þe day
                                
                                  Ne nightyngale in þe seson of May
                                
                                  Was neuere non þat liste better to synge
                                
                                  Ne lady lustiere in Carolynge /
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                                  And for to speke of loue and wommanhede
                                
                                  Ne knight in armes don an hardy dede
                                
                                  To stonden in grace of his lady deere
                                
                                  þan hadde þis prest þis craft to lere
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                                  And to þe chanon þus he spak and sayde
                                
                                  ffor þe loue of god þat for vs alle deyde / [folio 189a] 
                                
                                  And as I may deserue it vnto ȝow
                                
                                  What schal þis receyt coste telleþ now /
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                                  By oure lady quod þe chanon it is deere
                                
                                  I warne ȝou for saue I and a frere /
                                
                                  In Engelond þer can no man it make
                                
                                  No fors quod he now sire for goddes sake
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                                  What schal I paye tel me I ȝou pray
                                
                                  I-wys quod he it/ is ful deere I say

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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 420
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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