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

                                
                                     [6-text p 391] 
                                  
                                  An chaste was man in paradise certeine
                                
                                  Bott herken þere what .I. schal seine
                                
                                  .I. haue no text of þat as .I. suppose
                                
                                  Bot .I. schal finde it in a maner glose
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  þat speciali oure swete lorde ihesus [[MS ihc̄]] 
                                
                                  Spak þus be verse whan he seid þus
                                
                                  Blissed be þei þat pouer in spirit buen.
                                
                                  And so forþe al þe gospel maie ȝe seen [folio 110a] 
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Where it be like oure professione
                                
                                  Or her þat swemmen in possessione
                                
                                  Fye on here pompe and on her glotonye
                                
                                  And for here lewdenes .I. hem defye
                                  Line 1928 
                                
                                  Me þenkeþ þei ben like Iouynyan
                                
                                  Fatt as a whal and walkinge and as a swan
                                
                                  As vinolent as a botel in þe spense
                                
                                  Her praier is ful of grete reuerence
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  Whan þei for sowles seine þe psalme of Dauit
                                
                                  Lo buf þei seine Cor meum Eructauit
                                
                                  Who foloweþ cristes gospel and his lore
                                
                                  Bot we þat humble be chast and pouer
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  Werkes of goddes worde and eke auditoures
                                
                                  There-fore riht as an hauke ripe att a sores
                                
                                  Vp springeþe in-to þe eyre riht preiers
                                
                                  Of charitable and chast besy freres
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  Makene here sores to goddes eren and hoo
                                
                                  Thomas þere-for so must .I. ride or goo
                                
                                  And be þat god þat cleped is seint Iue
                                
                                  Nere þou owre broþer scholdest þou noȝt þryue
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  In owre chapetre prei we daie and nyht
                                
                                  To crist þat he sende þe hele and myht
                                
                                  Thi body for to welden hastely
                                
                                  God wote quod he no þinge þere-of wote .I.
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  As helpe me criste as in fewe ȝeres
                                
                                  Haue .I. spended of diuers maner freres
                                
                                  Full mony a pounde ȝit fare .I. neuer þe bette
                                
                                  Certein my good almost haue .I. be-sette

                                  Line 1952

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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 270
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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