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

                                
                                  Wele couþe he in eschaunge scheldes selle
                                
                                  This worþi man ful wel his wit be-sette
                                
                                  Thare wist no white þat he was in dette
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                                  So estately was he of his Gouernance
                                
                                  Wiþ his Bargeynes and wiþ his cheuisance
                                
                                  ffor soþe he was a worþi man wiþ all
                                
                                  Bot sothely to seine .I. note howe men him call
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                                  ¶ A clerke þere was of Oxenforde also
                                
                                  Þat vnto Logique had longe ygo
                                
                                  As lene was his hors as was a rake
                                
                                  And he was nouht riht fat .I. vndertake
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                                  Bot loked holwhe and þer-to soburly
                                
                                  fful þredebare was his ouer courteby
                                
                                  ffor he had geten him no benefice
                                
                                  Ne was so werdly to haue office
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                                  ffor him was leuer haue att his bed hede
                                
                                  Twenty bokes cladde in blak and rede.
                                
                                  Of Aristotle and his philo[so]phi [folio 5b] 
                                
                                  Þan Robes Riche or Pheþel or gay Sautry
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                                  Bot al by þat he was a Philosophre
                                
                                  Ȝit had he bot litel golde in Cophre
                                
                                  Bot al þat he myht on his frendes hente
                                
                                  On bokes and on lerenynge he it spente
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                                  And besily gan for þo sowles preye
                                
                                  Of hem þat ȝaf him where-wiþ for to scoleye
                                
                                  Of studye toke he most cure and moste hede
                                
                                  Not a worde more spak he þan was nede
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                                  And þat was seide in forme and reuerence
                                
                                  And schorte and whike and ful of hihe sentence
                                
                                  Sownynge in morall vertue was his speche
                                
                                  And gladely wolde he leren. and gladly teche
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                                  A Seriant of þe lawe war and wyse
                                
                                  Þat often had bene att þe paruise
                                
                                  Þat was also ful riche of excellence
                                
                                  Discrete he was and of grete reuerence
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                                  Him semed swyche his wordes weren so wyse

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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 9
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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