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

                                
                                     [6-text p 569] 
                                  
                                  And to þe Chanon he proferd eft sone
                                
                                  Body and goode ȝe quod þe chanone sone
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                                  þouhe poure .I. be crafte þou schalt me finde
                                
                                  .I. warne þe ȝit is þere more be-hinde
                                
                                  Is þere any coper here inne seide he
                                
                                  ȝe sir quod þe preste .I. troue þere be
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                                  Elles go by sum and þat aswyþe
                                
                                  Nowe sir go for þi waie and hyhe þe
                                
                                  And went his waie and wiþ his coper he came
                                
                                  And þis chanon in his hode it name
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                                  And of þat coper weyde oute bot an vnce
                                
                                  Al to simple is my tonge to pronounce
                                
                                  His mostre and his witte þe doublenesse
                                
                                  Of þis chanone rote of Corsednesse
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                                  He semed frendly to him þat knewe him nouht
                                
                                  Bot he was fendely boþe in werke and þouht
                                
                                  It werieþ me to telle of his falsenesse
                                
                                  And neþeles ȝit wil .I. it expresse
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                                  To þat entent þat men maie be war þere bye
                                
                                  And for none oþer cause treulye
                                
                                  He putte þis vnce of coper in to þe crosellet
                                
                                  And on þe fire also swiþe he haþe it sett
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                                  And kest in pouder and maade þe preste to blowe
                                
                                  And in his worcheinge for to stoupe lowe
                                
                                  As he dide erst and al was bott a Iape
                                
                                  Riht as him lust þe preste he maade his ape
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                                  And afterwarde in to þe Ingote he it kest
                                
                                  And in þe panne put it att þe last
                                
                                  Of water and inne he put his owen honde
                                
                                  And in his sleue as ȝe beforne honde
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                                  Herde me tell he had a siluer cheyne
                                
                                  He slyhely toke is oute þis cursed hyne
                                
                                  Vnwetinge þis preste of his fals craft
                                
                                  And in þe pannes bothom he haþ it left [folio 167b] 
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                                  And in þe water rumbleþ to and fro
                                
                                  And wonder priuely toke it vpp also

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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 419
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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