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

[6-text p 397] Þat þou depart it so myne owene dere broþer Þat euery frere haue also muche as oþer This schalt þou swere on þi professione [folio 112b] Wiþ-oute fraude or cauellacione 2136 .I. swere it quod þis frere vpon my feiþe And þere-wiþ-al his honde in his he leiþe Lo here my feiþe in me schal be no lakke þan put þine honde doune be my bakke 2140 Seide þis man and grepe wel be-hinde Be-neþe my buttok þere schaltow finde A þinge þat .I. haue hid in priuete A þouht þis frere þat schal go wiþ me 2144 An doune his honde he launceþ in-to þe clift He hoped þere for to finden a ȝift And þan ful besi was þis frere Aboute his touele gropeinge here and þere 2148 Amiddes his honde he lete þe frere a fart Þare is no capel draweinge in þe cart þat myht haue latt a fart of suche a sowne Þe frere vp stert as it were a fers lyone 2152 A fals cherle quod he for kokes bones þis hastow for spite done for þe nones þou schal abye þis fart if þat .I. maie His meignȝe whiche þat herden þis affray 2156 Cam lepeinge inn and chased owte þe frere And forþe he goþe wiþ a ful Angry chiere An fette his felawe þere as leie here store He loked as it were a wilde bore 2160 He grenteþ his teþ so was he wroþe A stordy pas doune to þe courte he goþe Where as þere wonned a man of grete honoure To whome þat he was al weie confessoure 2164 This worþi man was lorde of þat vilage þis frere cam as þouhe it were in a rage Where as þis lorde satte eteinge att his borde Vnneþ miht þe frere speke a worde 2168
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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