The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                    Bot wil [[h and e have been scratched out to re|duce this word.]]  ne schal nouht failen þat is soþe
                                  
                                    And ȝit haue .I. alwei a coltes toþe
                                  
                                    As mony a ȝere as it is passed henne
                                  
                                    Sen þat my tap of lif beganne to renne
                                  
                                    ffor sekerly whan .I. was borne a-none
                                  
                                    Deþe drowhe þe tape of lif and lete it gone
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                                    And euery siþþe haþþe so þe tap .I.-ronne
                                  
                                    Till þat al-moste al empti is the tonne
                                  
                                    The streme of lif nowe droppeþ on þe chimbe
                                  
                                    The seli tonge maie wele ringe and climbe
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                                    Of wrechedenesse þat passed is ful ȝore
                                  
                                    Wiþ olde folke saue dotage is no more
                                  
                                    ¶ Whan þat oure oste had herd þis sermonynge
                                  
                                    He gan to speke as lordly as a kinge
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                                    He seide what a-mounteþ al þis witte
                                  
                                    What schal we speke al day of holy writte
                                  
                                    The deuel maade a reue for to preche
                                  
                                    Or of souter schipman or a leche
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                                    Say forþe þi tale and tary nouht þe time
                                  
                                    Loo depford and it is halfe weie prime
                                  
                                    Loo grenewiche þat mony a schrewe is inne.
                                  
                                    It were al time þi tale for to gynne
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                                    ¶ Nowe sires quod Oswalde þe reue
                                  
                                    .I preie ȝowe al þat ȝe nouht ȝowe greue
                                  
                                    Thowhe .I. ansewere and sumdel sett his howue
                                  
                                    For leueful it is wiþ force force to schowue
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                                    This dronken melle haþe .I.-tolde us here
                                  
                                    Howe þat be-giled was a carpentier
                                  
                                    Parauentur in scoren for .I. am one
                                  
                                    And be ȝoure leue .I. schal him quyte anone.
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                                    Riht in his cherles termes wil .I. speke
                                  
                                    I preie to god his neke mot he breke
                                  
                                    He can wele in myne eye seen a stalke
                                  
                                    Bot in his owen he can nouht sene a balke

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 112
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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