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

                                
                                     [6-text p 389] 
                                  
                                  Mi spirte is fosterd in þe bible
                                
                                  Þe body is aie so redy and penyble
                                
                                  To wake þat my stomak is destruyed
                                
                                  .I. prei ȝowe dame þat ȝe be nouht anoyȝed
                                  Line 1848 
                                
                                  Þouhe .I. so frendely my counsel schewe
                                
                                  Be god .I. wold nouht tell it bot a fewe
                                
                                  Nowe sire quod sche bot a worde ar .I. goo
                                
                                  My childe is dede wiþ-in þes wekes tuo
                                  Line 1852 
                                
                                  Sene þat ȝe went oute of þis towne
                                
                                  His deþ sawe .I. be reuelacione
                                
                                  Seiþe þis frere att home in owre dortouure
                                
                                  .I. dar wele sein ere þan halue an houre
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  After his deþ .I. sawhe borne to blisse
                                
                                  In myne avison so god me wisse
                                
                                  So dede oure sexteine and oure fermourere
                                
                                  þat haue bue trewe freres .l. ȝere
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  þei maie nowe god be þanked of his lone
                                
                                  Maken her Iubile and walken alone.
                                
                                  And vp he ros and al oure couent eke
                                
                                  Wiþ mony a tere trillinge on my cheke
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Wiþ-owten noyes or clateringe of belles
                                
                                  Te deum was owre sange and no þinge elles
                                
                                  Saue þat to crist .I. saide an orison
                                
                                  Thonkeinge him of his reuelacione
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  For sir. and dame tresteþ me riht wele
                                
                                  Oure orisons bene mor esprituele
                                
                                  And more we see of cristes secre þinges
                                  Line 1871 
                                
                                  Than burel folke [þouȝe þei were kynges
                                
                                  To lyue in pouert and in abstinaunce
                                
                                  And borelle folke [Sloane MS 1685 folio 126b] ] in reches and wynynges [[dispense, Sloane 1685]] 
                                
                                  In mete and drinke and in hire foule delite
                                
                                  We haue þis werldes lust al in despite
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                  Lazar and diues leueden diuersly
                                
                                  And diuers guerdone had þei þere-bye
                                
                                  Who so wil praie he mot fast and be clene
                                
                                  And fatte his soule and mak his bodi lene

                                  Line 1880

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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 268
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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