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

Incipit prologus Magistri Phisici. [on leaf 169]

                                    
                                      NOwe trewly quod oure Oste þis is a prati tale
                                    
                                      For litel merveile it is þat þou lokest so pale
                                    
                                      Seþen þou hast medeled wiþ so mony þinges
                                    
                                      Wiþ bloweinge att þe cole to melte boþe brochez & ringes
                                    
                                      And oþere many Iewels dar .I. vnder-take
                                      Line 5 
                                    
                                      And þat þi lorde couþe vs tel: if we myht him ouere-take
                                    
                                      Bot lat him go a deuel waye þe compaigny is neuer þe wers [folio 169b] 
                                    
                                      And al suche fals harlotes .I. sette not be hem a kers
                                    
                                      Bot latt pas ouere nowe al þes subtilitees
                                      Line 9 
                                    
                                      And sume worþi man tel vs summe veritees
                                    
                                      As ȝe worschipful Maister of Phisike
                                    
                                      Telleþ vs somme tale þat is a cronyke
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                                      Þat we may of ȝowe leren sum witte
                                    
                                      Quod þe Maister of Phisik a tale þat .I. finde writte
                                    
                                      In cronyke passed of olde tyme
                                    
                                      Herkeneþ for .I. wil tel it ȝow in rime
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Explicit prologus.

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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 425
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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Full citation: "The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/agz8236.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.