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

                                
                                     [6-text p 316] 
                                  
                                  .I. preche so as ȝe haue herde be-fore
                                
                                  And tel an hundreþ Iapes more
                                
                                  Than peyne .I. me to strecche forþe my nekke
                                
                                  And est and west uppon þe peple .I. bekke
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                                  As doþe a doue sittinge vpon a berne
                                
                                  Myne hondes and my tonge go so ȝerne
                                
                                  þat it is Ioye to see my besinesse
                                
                                  Of avarise and suche oþer cursednesse
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                                  Is as Mi preccheinge to make hem fre
                                
                                  To ȝeue here pens namely vnto me
                                
                                  For myne entent is nouht bot for to wynne
                                
                                  And no þinge for correction of sinne
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                                  .I. reke neuer whan þat þei be buried
                                
                                  þouhe þat here soules gone a blakberied
                                
                                  For certes mony a predicaciōne
                                
                                  Souneþ oft time of yuel entencione
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                                  [Somme for plesance of folk and for flaterie [Addit. 25,718 folio 54a] 
                                
                                  To ben auaunsed for ypocresye
                                
                                  And somme for veynglory and somme for hate [Addit. 25,718 folio 54b] 
                                
                                  ffor when I dar nought oother weys de-bate
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                                  Thenne wolly stynge him with my tunge smert
                                
                                  I preching and that he shal nought astert
                                
                                  To ben defamed falsly if that he
                                
                                  Hath trespased to myn britheren other to me
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                                  ffor though I telle nought his propre name
                                
                                  Men shal wel knowe that hit is the same
                                
                                  Bothe by seignes and oother circumstaunces
                                
                                  Thus . rule I folk that doth vs displesances
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                                  Thus spitte I myn venym vnder hewe
                                
                                  Of holinesse to seme holy and trewe
                                
                                  But shortly myn entent wol I deuyse
                                
                                  I [[? MS sir]]  preche of no thing but of Coueytise
                                
                                  Ther-fore my teme is ȝet and euer was
                                
                                  Radix malorum est cupiditas
                                
                                  Thus kan I preche ayayns that same vice [[Addit. MS extract stops]] ]
                                
                                  Suche þat .I. vse and þat is of auarice [folio 174b] 
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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 439
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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