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

                                
                                     [6-text p 386] 
                                  
                                  Wiþ scrippe and tipped staf tokked ful hihe
                                
                                  In euery . hous he gan to poure and prie
                                
                                  And beggeþ mele or chiese or elles corne
                                
                                  His felowe had a staf tipped wiþ horne
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                                  A peire of tables of yvory
                                
                                  And a pointel polisched fetusly
                                
                                  And wrote þe names alweie as he stode
                                
                                  Of euery folke þat ȝaue hem any goode
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                                  Askaunse þat he wolde for hem preie
                                
                                  ȝeue vs a boschel wete malte or rie
                                
                                  A goddes kechel or a trep of chese
                                
                                  Or elles what ȝowe lest we maie nouhte chese
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                                  A goddes halpenye or a mespeny
                                
                                  Or ȝeue vs of ȝoure branne if ȝe haue any
                                
                                  A dagon of ȝoure blanket leue dame
                                
                                  Lo suster dere lo here .I. write ȝoure name
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                                  Bacon or befe or suche þinge as ȝe finde
                                
                                  A stordy harlote went hem aie be-hinde [folio 108a] 
                                
                                  þat was he osteman and bare a sakke
                                
                                  And what men ȝaue hem laide on his bakke
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                                  And he was out att þe dore anone
                                
                                  He pleyned awaie þe names euerychon
                                
                                  þat he be-fore had wreten in his tables
                                
                                  He serued hem wiþ nifles and wiþ fables
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                                  Nay þere þou lext þou Somnour quod þe frere
                                
                                  Pes quod oure host for criste/ moder dere
                                
                                  Tel forþ þi tale Spare it nouht att al
                                
                                  So þriue .I. quod þe Somnour so .I. schal
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                                  So longe he went hous be hous quod he
                                
                                  Til he come to an hous þer he was wonte to be
                                
                                  Refressched more þat in an hundreþ place
                                
                                  Seke laye bonde man wos þe place [[is scratcht out]] 
                                
                                  And vpon a couche lowe he laye
                                
                                  Deus hic quod he O Thomas frende good daie
                                
                                  Seide þis frere curtasly and soft
                                
                                  Thomas seide he god ȝelde ȝowe ful oft

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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 265
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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