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

                                
                                     [6-text p 315] 
                                  
                                  Touche he þis bone anone he schal be sounde
                                
                                  And ȝit also forþermore; of pokkes & scabbes & of euery sore.
                                
                                  Schal euery schepe be hole þat of þis well
                                
                                  Drenkeþ a drawht of takeþ kepe what .I. tell
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                                  Wil euery wyhte er þat þe koke him croweþe
                                
                                  And doþe þinge þat him oweþe
                                
                                  ffastynge drinke of þis welle a drauht
                                
                                  And þilke holy Iewe oure helders ones tauht
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                                  His bestes and his store schal multeplie
                                
                                  And sires also it heleþ Ielousye [folio 174a] 
                                
                                  And þouhe a man be fal in Ielowsie rage
                                
                                  Lat make wiþ þis water his potage
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                                  And neuer schal he more his wif mestruste
                                
                                  þouhe he þe soþe a defaute by hire wiste
                                
                                  Al hadde sche taken prestes tueyne or þre
                                
                                  Here is a Metaine eke ȝe maye see
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                                  He þat his honde wil put in þat Metane
                                
                                  He schall haue multipliinge of his greine
                                
                                  Whan he haþe sowen be it whete or otes
                                
                                  So þat of pens oþer of grotes
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                                  And men and wemmen o þinge warn .I. ȝowe
                                
                                  If any whight be in þis cherche nowe
                                
                                  þat haþ done sinne orrible þat he
                                
                                  Dare nouht fo[r] schame schriuen be
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                                  Or any womman be sche ȝonge or olde
                                
                                  þat haþ ymaad hir husbond cokwolde
                                
                                  Suche folke schal haue no powere no grace
                                
                                  To offer to my relikes in þis place
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                                  And who so findeþ him oute of suche blame
                                
                                  þei wil come vp and offer in goddes name
                                
                                  And .I. assoile him be þe auctorite
                                
                                  Suche as be bul was graunted me
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                                  Be þis Gaude haue .I. wonne euery ȝere
                                
                                  An .C. mark seþen .I. was pardonere
                                
                                  .I. stonde like a clerke in mony a pulpitt
                                
                                  And schewe þe lewde peple and doune þei sitt

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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 438
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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