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

                                
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                                  I preche so as ȝe haue herd byfore
                                
                                  And telle an hundred Iapes more /
                                
                                  þenne peyne I me to strecche forþ my nekke
                                
                                  And Est and west vpon þe poeple I bekke
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                                  As doþ a dowfe sittyng vpan a berne
                                
                                  myn handes and my tonge gon so ȝerne
                                
                                  þat is it ioye to se my busynes
                                
                                  Of auarice and such oþer cursednes
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                                  Is al my prechinge to make hem fre
                                
                                  To ȝiue here pans and namely vnto me
                                
                                  ffor myn entent is nouȝt but for to wynne
                                
                                  And noþing for correccion of synne
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                                  I rekke neuer whan þat þey ben beried
                                
                                  þough þat here soules gon a blake beryed
                                
                                  ffor certes many a predicacion
                                
                                  Sowneþ ofte tyme of yuel intencion [folio 196b] 
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                                  Somme for plesaunce of folk and for flaterie
                                
                                  To ben auaunced by ypocresye
                                
                                  And somme for veynglorie and somme for hate /
                                
                                  ffor whan I dar nouȝt oþerwise debate
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                                  þanne wil I stynge hem with my tonge smerte
                                
                                  In preching so þat þei schal nouȝt asterte
                                
                                  To be diffamed falsly if þat he
                                
                                  haþ trespassed to my breþeren oþer to me
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                                  ffor þough I telle nouȝt his propre name
                                
                                  Men schal wel knowe þat it is þe same
                                
                                  By symony and by oþer circumstaunces
                                
                                  þus quyte I folk þat doþ vs displesaunces
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                                  þus spitte I out my venym vnder hewe
                                
                                  Of holynesse to seme holy and trewe
                                
                                  But schortly myn entent I wil deuyse
                                
                                  I preche of no þing but of coueytise
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                                  þerfore my teeme is ȝit and euer was
                                
                                  Radix malorum est cupiditas /
                                
                                  Thus gan I preche aȝeins þe same vice
                                
                                  Such þat I vse and þat is auarice

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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 438
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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