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

                                  
                                    Reuele and treuþe as in a louhe degre
                                  
                                    Thei bene ful wroþe aldaie as men maie see
                                  
                                    This Ioly prentis with his maister bode
                                  
                                    Til he weer nyhe oute of his prentishode
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                                    Al were he snybbed boþe erly and late
                                  
                                    And sum tyme ladde wiþ reuel to newgate
                                  
                                    Bot att þe last his maister him be-þought
                                  
                                    Vpon a daie whan he his paper souht
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                                    Of a prouerbe þat seiþe þis same worde
                                  
                                    Wele better is roten appel oute of horde
                                  
                                    Than þat it rote al þe remenant
                                  
                                    So fareþ it be a riotous seruant
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                                    It is full lasse harme to latt it passe
                                  
                                    Þan he schende al þe seruantes in þe place
                                  
                                    Thare-for his maister ȝaf him aquitance
                                  
                                    And bad him go wiþ sorwe and wiþ meschaunce
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                                    And þus þis Iolif prentise had his leue
                                  
                                    Nowe lat him riote al þe nyhte or leue
                                  
                                    And for þere is no þef wiþ-owten a lowke
                                  
                                    Þat helpeþ him to wasten and to sowke
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                                    Of þat he bribe can or borwe maye
                                  
                                    Anone he sent his bedde and his araie
                                  
                                    Vnto a Conper of his owen sorte
                                  
                                    Þat loued dis and reuel and disporte
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                                    And had a wife þat helde for countinance
                                  
                                    A schoppe and swyued for his sustenance. [[No gap in the MS.]]

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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 128
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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