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

                                
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                                  Ȝit maie þat hihe god and so hope .I.
                                
                                  Graunt me grace to leue vertuously
                                
                                  Than am .I. gentil whan þat .I. be-ginne
                                
                                  To leuen vertuously and weuen sinne
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                                  ¶ And þare as ȝe of pouert me repreue
                                
                                  The hihe god on whom þat we beleue
                                
                                  In wilful pouert ches to leue his lif
                                
                                  And certes euery man and maide and wif
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                                  Maie vnder-stonde ihesu heuen kinge
                                
                                  Ne wold nouȝt chese a vicious leueinge
                                
                                  Glad pouert is an honest þinge certeigne
                                
                                  This wil senec an[d] oþere clerkes seine
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                                  Who so þat holde him paide of his pouert
                                
                                  .I. holde him riche al had he nouht sert
                                
                                  He þat coueteþ is a pouer wight
                                
                                  For he wold haue þat is nouht in his myht
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                                  Bot þat nouht haþe ne coueteþ to haue
                                
                                  Is riche al-þouhe men holde him bot a knaue
                                
                                  Verray pouert is sinne propurly
                                
                                  Iuuenal seiþe of pouert merely
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                                  The pore man whan he goþ be þe waye
                                
                                  Be-for þe þeues he maie singe and pleye
                                
                                  Pouert is hatel good and as .I. gesse
                                
                                  A ful grete bringer oute of besinesse
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                                  A gre amender eke of Sapience
                                
                                  To him þat lakkeþ it in pacience
                                
                                  Pouer is þis al þouhe it seme Alinge
                                
                                  Possessione þat no wyht wil chalinge.
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                                  Pouert ful oft whan a ma[n] is lowe
                                
                                  Makeþ his and eke him self to knowe
                                
                                  Pouert in spektacle is as þenkeþ me
                                
                                  Þourhe whiche he maie his verray frende se
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                                  And þere sen þat .I. ȝowe nouȝt greue
                                
                                  Of my pouert no more me repreue [¶ Nota de Senectute] 
                                
                                  Nowe sire of elde ȝe preue me
                                
                                  And certes sir þoruhe none auctorite

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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 247
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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