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

                                
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                                  It nedeþ no more spek of hit seide he
                                
                                  Bot if me lust of myne humilitee
                                
                                  Ȝif me þan of þi golde to make oure cloyster
                                
                                  Quod he for mony a muskel and many an oyster
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                                  Haþe buen oure fode oure cloi[s]ter for to reise
                                
                                  Whan oþer men haþe be ful wele att eyse
                                
                                  And ȝit god wote vneþ þe foundement
                                
                                  Performed is ne of oure Paiment
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                                  Nis nouht a tile ȝit wiþ-inne owre wones
                                
                                  Be godde we owen fourti pounde for stones
                                
                                  Now helpe thomas for him þat herewed helle
                                
                                  Or we most oure bokes selle
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                                  And if we lakke our predicacione
                                
                                  Than goþ þe werlde al to destruccione
                                
                                  For who wolde fro þis werlde vs be-reue
                                
                                  So god me saue Thomas be ȝoure leue
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                                  He wolde be-reve oute of þe werlde þe sonne
                                
                                  For who can teche and worche as we conne
                                
                                  And þat is nouht of litel time quod he
                                
                                  Bot seþyns Elye was or Elyȝe
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                                  Haþe freres buen þat finde .I. of recorde.
                                
                                  In Charite y-þonked be oure lorde
                                
                                  Now thomas helpe for seint charitee
                                
                                  Adoune a-none he sett him on his kne
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                                  ¶ This seeke man wex nyhe woode for ire
                                
                                  He wolde þat þe frere had bue on fire
                                
                                  Wiþ his fals dissimulacione
                                
                                  Suche þinge as is here in my possessione
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                                  Quod he þat maie .I. ȝeue and none oþere
                                
                                  Ȝe seine me þus þat .I. am ȝoure broþer
                                
                                  Ȝe sertes quod þe frere trusteþ me wele
                                
                                  .I. toke oure dame oure lettres wiþ owre seale
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                                  ¶ Nowe wele quod he and sumwhat wil .I. ȝeue
                                
                                  Vn-to ȝoure holy Couent whiles .I. leve
                                
                                  And in þin hand þou schal it haue anone
                                
                                  Vpon þis condicione and oþere none

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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 275
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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