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

                                
                                  Iustice he was ful often in assise
                                
                                  Be Patent and be pleine commissioun
                                
                                  ffor his science and his hihe renoun
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                                  Of fees and robes had he manyone
                                
                                  So grete a purchasour was nowhere none
                                
                                  Al was fe symple to him in effecte
                                
                                  His purchasinge miht nouht be enfecte
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                                  No-wher so besy a man as he þare nas
                                
                                  And ȝitte he semed bisier þan he was
                                
                                  In termes had he cas and domes all
                                
                                  þat fro þe time of Kynge William were fall
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                                  Thare-to he couþe endite and make a þinge
                                
                                  There couþe no whight pinche att his writeinge
                                
                                  And euery statut couþe he pleine be rote
                                
                                  He rode Rode bot homely in Medle cote
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                                  Gerde wiþ a seint of silke withe with barres smale
                                
                                  Of his aray tel .I. no longer tale
                                
                                  ¶ A frankelein was in his companye
                                
                                  White was his berde as is þe dayse
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                                  Of his complexion he was sangwyne
                                
                                  Wele loued he be þe morwe a soppe in wyne
                                
                                  To leuen in delit euer was his wonne
                                
                                  ffor he was Opiournes owne sonne
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                                  That helde opinione þat pleine delite [folio 6a] 
                                
                                  Was verrey felicite perfite
                                
                                  An howse-halder and þat a grete was he
                                
                                  Seint Iulian he was in his countre
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                                  His brede his ale was alwey after one
                                
                                  A better envined man was neuer none
                                
                                  Wiþ owte bakemete was neuer his howse
                                
                                  Of ffissche of flessche and þat so plentiuouse
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                                  It snewide in his house of mete and drinke
                                
                                  Of al Deynteþes þat men couþe þenke
                                
                                  After þe sondri sesons of þe ȝere
                                
                                  So chaunged he his mete and his soper
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                                  fful many a fat partriche had he in Mewe

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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 10
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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