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

                                
                                     [6-text p 524] 
                                  
                                  Vn-to þis Philofre howe schal .I. do
                                
                                  .I. se no more bot þat .I. am for-do
                                
                                  Myne heritage most .I. nedes sell
                                
                                  And buen a begger here may .I. no longer dwell
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                                  And schamen al þis kinrede in þis place
                                
                                  Bot .I. of him maie gette þe better grace
                                
                                  [But netheles I wolle of him assay
                                
                                  At Certeyne yeeris and dayes to pay [Harl. 7333 folio 86a:2]  [[ Also in Reg. 17 D 15, leaf 190, and Harl. 1758, leaf 136. Not in Sloane 1686, leaf 206, back.]] ]
                                
                                  .I. wil þonke him of his grete curtesie
                                
                                  Myne trouþe wil .I. kepe .I. wil nouht lye
                                
                                  Wiþ hert sore he goþe vnto his cofre
                                
                                  And brouht golde vnto his philosofre
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                                  The valewe of .vj.C pounde .I. gesse
                                
                                  And him besecheþ of his gentillesse
                                
                                  To graunt him daies of þe remenant [folio 151b] 
                                
                                  And maistere .I. dare wele make auaunt
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                                  .I. failed neuer my trouþe as ȝite
                                
                                  For sekurly my dettes schal .I. quyte
                                
                                  To-warde ȝowe howe euer þat .I. fare
                                
                                  To gone abigged in my kirtel bare
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                                  Bot wold ȝe vouche sauf vpon suyrte
                                
                                  Two ȝere oþer þre te respite me
                                
                                  Then ware .I. wele for elles most. I sell
                                
                                  Myne heritage þer nys no more to tell
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                                  Thi[s] philosophre soburly ansewerd
                                
                                  And seid þus whan he þes wordes herde
                                
                                  Haue .I. nouht holden couenant vnto þe
                                
                                  ȝis certes wele and treuly quod he
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                                  Hast þou not had þi lady as þe lykeþ
                                
                                  No no quod he and sorwfully he sikeþ
                                
                                  Whatt was þe cause tel me if þou can
                                
                                  Aurelius his tale a-none be-gan
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                                  And tolde him al as ȝe han herde be-fore
                                
                                  It nedeþ nouht to rehersen no more
                                
                                  [He seide Arneragus/ of gentilnesse. [Harl. 1758 folio 136b]  [[ Also in Harl. 7333, lf 86, back, col. 1,and Reg. 17 D 15, leaf 136, back.]] 
                                
                                  Had leuyr/ dye in sorow & distresse.

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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 375
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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