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

                                
                                  ¶ A frere þare was a wanton and murye.
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  A lymitur a ful solempne manne
                                
                                  In all þe orderes foure is none þat canne.
                                
                                  So muche of daliance and faire langage [folio 4b] 
                                
                                  He had maade ful mony a mariage.
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  Of ȝonge wemmen att his owen cost
                                
                                  Vn-to his order he was a nobel post
                                
                                  fful wele be-loued and famulier was he.
                                
                                  With frankeleyns ouer al in his contre.
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  And wiþ worþe wemmen of þe toune
                                
                                  ffor he had power of confessione
                                
                                  As seide him selfe more þan a curate
                                
                                  ffor [of] his order he was licenciate
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  fful swetely herde he confessiōn
                                
                                  And plesant was his absoluciōn.
                                
                                  He was an hesy man to ȝef penānce
                                
                                  Ther as he wiste to haue a goode petānce
                                  Line 224 
                                
                                  ffor vn-to a poure order for to ȝeue
                                
                                  Is singne þat a man is wel yschriue
                                
                                  ffor if he ȝaf he dorst make avaunt
                                
                                  He wist þat a man was repentaunt
                                  Line 228 
                                
                                  ffor mony a man so harde is of his herte
                                
                                  He maie nouht wepe al þouhe he sore smerte
                                
                                  There-for in stede of wepeynge and preyeres
                                
                                  Men mote ȝiue siluer to þe poure freres
                                  Line 232 
                                
                                  His tepet was ay farset ful of knyues
                                
                                  And pinnes for to ȝeue faire wyues
                                
                                  And certeinli he had a mery note
                                
                                  Wele couþe he singen and pleine on a rote
                                  Line 236 
                                
                                  Of ȝeddinges he bare witterli þe pris
                                
                                  His neke white was as þe floure delis
                                
                                  Ther-to he was also stronge as a champioune
                                
                                  He knewe þe tauernes wele in euery towne.
                                  Line 240 
                                
                                  And eueryche hosteler or a tapestere
                                
                                  Better þan a laȝar or a Begger
                                
                                  ffor vn-to suche a worþi man as he

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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 7
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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