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

                                
                                     [6-text p 388] 
                                  
                                  In al þe cherche so god · saue me
                                
                                  Ȝe god amend defautes sire quod sche
                                
                                  Algates welcom be ȝe be my faye
                                
                                  Graunt Merci dame þis haue .I. founde al weie
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                                  Bot of ȝoure grete goodenes be ȝowre leue
                                
                                  .I. wolde praie ȝoue þat ȝe not ȝowe greue
                                
                                  .I. wil · wiþ thomas speke a litel þrowe
                                
                                  þis Curates buen ful necligent and slowe
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                                  To gropen tenderly a consciens
                                
                                  In schrift and in precheinge is my diligence
                                
                                  And stody in peters wordes and in poules
                                
                                  .I. walke and fische men soules
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                                  To ȝelden ihesu criste his propre rent
                                
                                  To sprede his wordes .I. sett al myne entent
                                
                                  Now be ȝoure leue o dere sir quod sce
                                
                                  Chideþ him wele for god in trinite
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                                  He is as Angry as a pismyre
                                
                                  Ȝeihe þat he haue al þat he can desire
                                
                                  þeihe .I. him wrye a nyht and make him warme
                                
                                  And ouere him laye my legge or myne Arme
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                                  He groneþ like owre bore groneinge in his stye
                                
                                  Oþer disport of him riht none haue .I.
                                
                                  .I. maie nouht plesen him in no maner caas
                                
                                  .Ieo vous die treschier & bien amy o thomas
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                                  þis makeþ þe fende it most bue amended
                                
                                  Ire is a þinge þat hihe god defended
                                
                                  And þere-of wil .I. speke a worde or tuo
                                
                                  Nowe Maister quod þe wif ar þat .I. go
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                                  What wil ȝe dyne .I. wil go þere aboute
                                
                                  Nowe dame quod he Ie vous dy sanz doute [folio 109a] 
                                
                                  Haue. note of a capon bot þe liuere
                                
                                  And of ȝoure soft brede bot a schiuere
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  And after þat a rosted pigges hede
                                
                                  Bot þat .I. wold for me no beste were dede
                                
                                  þan hadde .I. wiþ ȝowe holy sufficeance
                                
                                  .I. am a man of litel sustinance

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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 267
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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