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

                                
                                  There as þis lorde was keper of þe selle
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  The rewle of seint Maure or of seint Beneyte
                                
                                  Be cause þat it was olde and somdele streyte
                                
                                  This ilke monke lete olde þinges pace
                                
                                  And helde after þe newe werde þe pace
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                                  He ȝaf nouht of þe text a pulled henne
                                
                                  þat seiþe þat hunteres beþe nouht holy menne
                                
                                  Ne that a monke whan he is recheles
                                
                                  Is likkened til a fische þat is waterles.
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  That is to seie A monke oute of his cloistre
                                
                                  Bot þilke text held he nouht worþe an hoistre
                                
                                  And .I. seide his opinione was goode
                                
                                  Whatt scholde he stodie and make him selfe wode
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                                  Vpon a boke in cloister al-weie to powre
                                
                                  Or swynke wiþ his hondes and laboure
                                
                                  As Austine bite howe schal þe werld be serued
                                
                                  Latte Austine haue his swynke to him rese[r]ued
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                                  Thare-for he was a prikasoure a right
                                
                                  Grehoundes he had as swift as foules in flyht
                                
                                  Of Prikinge and of huntynge for þe hare.
                                
                                  Was al his lust for no cost wolde he spare.
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  .I. seighe his sleues purfiled att þe honde
                                
                                  Wiþ Gryse and þat þe fynest of a londe
                                
                                  And for to festen þe hode vnder his chynne
                                
                                  He had of golde wrought a ful coriouse pinne
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                                  A loue knotte on þe gretter hende þere was
                                
                                  His hede was balled þat schone as any glas
                                
                                  And eke his face as he had be anoynte
                                
                                  He was a lorde ful fatte and in goode pointe.
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                                  His yhen stepe and rollinge in his hede
                                
                                  That stemed as a furneis of a lede
                                
                                  His botes souple his hors in grete astate
                                
                                  Nowe certeynely he was a faire prelate.
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                                  He nas nouht pale as a forpyned goste
                                
                                  A fatte swanne loued he best of any roste
                                
                                  His Palfrei was as broune as is a burye

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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 6
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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