Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

þat had lad of donge ful mony a foþere And a trew swinker and a goode was he Lyueinge in pes and in perfit charite 532 God loued he best wiþ al his herte Att al times þouhe he gamed or smerte And þan his neighebore riht as him selue He wolde þresshe and þer-to dike and delue 536 ffor cristes sake for euery pouer white With owte hire if it leie in his miht His tyþes paide he ful faire and wele Bothe of his proper swynke and of his catel 540 In a tabarde he rode vpon a mere ¶ Ther was al so a reue and a Mellere A sompnour and pardonere al so A manciple and my selfe þere nare no mo 544 The Meller was a stowte carle for þe nones fful big he was of braune and eke of bones . That proued wele for ouer al þer he cam [folio 8b] Att wrastelinge he wolde haue awaie þe ramme 548 He was schort-scholdred a þike gnarre There was no dore þat he ne wolde heue of harre Or breke it wiþ a renynge with his hede His berd as any sowe or fox was rede 552 And þer-to brode as þouhe it were a spade Vpon þe cop riht of his nose he had A werte and þere on stode a tofte of heres Rede as þe bresteles of a sowes Eres 556 His nos-þrelles blake were and wide A swerde and a bokeler bar he be his side His mouþe as grete was as grete furneys He was a Iangeler and a goliardeys 560 And þat was most of sinne and of Harlotries Wele couþe he stele corne and tolle þries And ȝitte he had a thombe of golde parde A white cote and a blewe hode wered he 564 A Baggepipe wele couþe he blawe and sowne
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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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