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

Þat on his schinne a mormal had he ffor blankemangere þat maade he wiþ þe beste ¶ A Schipman was þere wonnynge fer be weste 388 ffor owht .I. wote he was of dertemouþe He rode vpon a rounse as he couþe In a goune of foldeynge to þe kne A dagger hongeynge on a lace had he 392 Abowte his neke vnder his Arme downe Þe Hote somere had made his hiew al browne An certeinly he was a goode felawe. fful mony a drauht of wyne had he draw 396 ffrome Burdeux-warde whan þe chapman slepe Of nice conscience toke he no kepe If þat he fauhte and had þe hiher honde Be water he sent him home be euery londe 400 Bot of his crafte to rekken wele his tides His stremes and his dawnger him be-sides His herberwe. and his mone . and his lodemannage Thare was none swyche fro Hulle to Cartage 404 Hardy he was and wyse to vndertake Wiþ mony a tempest had his berde be schake He knewe al þe hauenes as þei were ffro Gotelonde to þe cape Defynystre 408 And euery Cryke in Breteine and in Spayne His barge y-cleped was þe Maudeleyne ¶ Wiþ vs þere was a doctur of Phesike In al þis werlde ne was þere none him like 412 To speke of Phisike and of Surgerie ffor he was grounded in Astronomye He kepet his pacient a ful grete dele In houres be his Magike naturele 416 Wele couþe he fortune þe Ascendent Of his ymages for his pacient He knewe þe cause of euer-yche maledie Were it of colde of hote or moiste or drie 420 And where-of engenderde it. and of what humere [folio 7a]
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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