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

                                
                                  And mony a breme and mony a luce in stewe
                                
                                  Woo was his coke bot his sauce were
                                
                                  Punyant and scharpe and redy al his gere
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                                  His table dormant in his hall alweie
                                
                                  Stode redy couered al þe longe deie.
                                
                                  Att Sessions þere was he lorde and sire
                                
                                  fful oft time he was knight of þe schire
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                                  An Anelas and a gisper al of silke
                                
                                  Honge att his gerdel white as morne melke
                                
                                  A Schirrif had he bene and a comptoure
                                
                                  Was nowher suche a worþi vavisoure.
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                                  An Haberdassher and a Carpentere
                                
                                  A webbe a dyere. and a tapecere
                                
                                  And þei were cloþed all in o liuere
                                
                                  Of a solempne and a grete ffraternite
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                                  fful frische and newe hire gere a-pyked was
                                
                                  Here knyues ware chaped nouht wiþ bras
                                
                                  Bot al wiþ siluer wrowht ful clene and wele
                                
                                  Here girdeles and her pouches euerydele
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                                  Wele semed iche of hem a faire burgeise
                                
                                  To sitten in a ȝelde hall on þe hihe dese
                                
                                  Eueryche for þe wisdom þat he kanne
                                
                                  Was schapely for to bene an Alderman
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                                  ffor catel had þei ynowhe and rente
                                
                                  And eke here wyves it wolde wele assente
                                
                                  And elles certein þei were to blame
                                
                                  It is ful faire to be cleped ma dame
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                                  And gone to vigiles al to-fore
                                
                                  And haue a mantil ryaliche ybore
                                
                                  ¶ A Cooke þei had wiþ hem for þe nones [folio 6b] 
                                
                                  To Boile þe Chikenes wiþ þe mery bones
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                                  And pouder Marchant tarte and Galingale
                                
                                  Wele couþe he knowe a drawht of londen ale
                                
                                  He couþe roste and sethe and broile and frye
                                
                                  Maken Mortreux and wele bake a pye
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                                  Bot grete harme was it as it þouht me

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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 11
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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