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

                                
                                  Accorded nouht as be his faculte
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  To haue wiþ suche seke lazerz acquayntance
                                
                                  It is nouht honest it maie nouht avaunce
                                
                                  ffor to dele wiþ suche poraile
                                
                                  Bot al wiþ riche and seller of vitaile
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  And ouere al þare as profet schold arise
                                
                                  Curteise he was and lowly of seruyse
                                
                                  þer nas no man noghwere so vertuous
                                
                                  He was þe best begger in his hous
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
                                
                                  ffor þouhe a widowe had nouht a scho [folio 5a] 
                                
                                  So plesande was his in principio.
                                
                                  Ȝit wolde he haue a ferþinge ar he wente
                                
                                  His purchas was wel better þan his rent
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  And rage he couþe riht as it were a whelpe
                                
                                  In louedaies þare couþe he muchel helpe
                                
                                  ffor þere he was not liche a cloistrere
                                
                                  Wiþ a þrede-bare cope as a pouer scolere
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  Bot he was lyke a Maistre or a Pope
                                
                                  Of dowble worstede was his semy-cope
                                
                                  Þat rounde as a bell out þe presse
                                
                                  Somwhat he lisped for his wantonesse
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  To make his yngelische swete vpon his tonge
                                
                                  And in his harpeinge whan he had songe
                                
                                  His yhen twynkeled in his heued ariht
                                
                                  As doþe þe sterres in þe froste nyht
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  This worþe Limetour was cleped Huberd
                                
                                  ¶ A marchant was þere with a forked berde
                                
                                  In motteley. and hye on hors he satte
                                
                                  Vpon his heued a fflaundrisshe beuere hatte
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  His botes clasped faire and fetislye
                                
                                  His resons he spake ful solemplye
                                
                                  Scheweynge alwey þencres of his wynynge
                                
                                  He wolde þe se were keppede for any þinge
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Be-twyx Middelburgh. and Orewelle

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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 8
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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