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

                                
                                  He was a verrey perfite practisere
                                
                                  The cause .I.-knewe and of his harme þe rote
                                
                                  A-none he ȝaue seke man his bote
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  fful redy had he his Apotecaries
                                
                                  To sende him drugges and his letuaries
                                
                                  ffor iche of hem made oþer for to winne
                                
                                  Here ffrindeschipe nas not newe to begynne
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                                  Wele knewe he þe olde Escalapius
                                
                                  And discorides and eke Rusus
                                
                                  Olde ypocras Haly and Galiene
                                
                                  Serapion . Razie and Auizene
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                                  Auerois Damascien and Constantine
                                
                                  Bernard and Gatisdene . and Gilbertine
                                
                                  Of his Dyete Mesurable was he
                                
                                  ffor it was of no superfluite
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                                  Bot of grete norsschinge and digestible
                                
                                  His study was bot litel on þe bible
                                
                                  In sangwyne and in pers he clad was all
                                
                                  Lyned wiþ Tafeta and wiþ sendall
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  And ȝit he was bot esy of dispense
                                
                                  He keped þat he wanne in þe pestilense
                                
                                  ffor gold in phesik is accordial
                                
                                  There-fore he loued golde in speciale
                                  Line 444 
                                
                                  ¶ A goode wif þer was of be-side baþe
                                
                                  Bot sche was sumdele defe and þat was skaþe
                                
                                  Of cloþe makeynge sche had swyche an haunte
                                
                                  Sche passed hem of . Ipres and of Gaunte
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  In all þe parische wif ne was þere none
                                
                                  That to þe offringe to-forne hir scholde gone
                                
                                  And if þere dide certeyne wroþe was sche
                                
                                  Þat sche was owte of al charite
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                                  Hire couerchiefs ful fine were of grounde
                                
                                  .I. dorste swere þei weiden ten pounde
                                
                                  Þat on a sonday weren on hire hede
                                
                                  Here hosen weren of fine scarlet rede
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                                  fful streite tyed . and schoes ful moiste and newe

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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 13
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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