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

                                
                                  And þere wiþ all he browht vs owte of towne
                                
                                  A gentill Maunciple was þere of a temple
                                
                                  Of whiche acatours miht take goode ensample
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                                  ffor to be wise in byynge of vitaile
                                
                                  ffor weþer þat he paiede or toke be taile
                                
                                  Algate he waited so in his achate
                                
                                  Þat he was al be-forne and in goode astate
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                                  Now es nouht þat of god a ful faire grace.
                                
                                  Þat suche a lewde mannes witt schal pace
                                
                                  Þe wisdom of an hepe of lerned men
                                
                                  Of Maistres had he mo þan þries ten
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                                  Þat weren of lawe expert and curious
                                
                                  Of wiche þer was a doseine in þat hous
                                
                                  Worþe to be stewardes of rent and londe
                                
                                  Of any lordes þat is in yngelonde
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                                  To make him leue be his propre goode
                                
                                  In honoure detteles bot if he were wode
                                
                                  Or lyue as scarsely as him lust desire
                                
                                  And able for to helpen al a schire
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                                  In any cas þat myht fal or happe
                                
                                  And ȝit þis manciple sette here alþere cappe
                                
                                  ¶ The reue was a sclender Colerik man
                                
                                  His berde was schaue as nyhe as euere he can.
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                                  His here was be his eres rounde y-schorne [folio 9a] 
                                
                                  His tope was dokked like a preste to forne
                                
                                  fful longe was [his] legges and ful lene
                                
                                  .I.-like a staf þar was no calfe y-sene
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                                  Wele couþe he kepe a gernar or a bynne
                                
                                  Ther was non auditoure couþe on him wynne
                                
                                  Wele wiste he be drowhte and be þe reyne
                                
                                  The ȝeldeynge of his sede and of his greyne
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                                  His lordes schepe his nete his dayre
                                
                                  His swyne his hors his store and his pultre
                                
                                  Was holy in þis reues gouernynge
                                
                                  And be his couenant ȝaf þe rekenynge
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                                  Sen þat his lord was twenty ȝere of age

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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 17
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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