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

                                
                                     [6-text p 317] 
                                  
                                  Bot þeihe .I. me self be gilte in þat sinne
                                
                                  Ȝit kanne .I. maake oþer folke to wynne
                                
                                  Fromme auarice and sore to repent
                                
                                  Bot þat nes nouht myn principal entent
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                                  .I. preche no þinge bot for Couetise
                                
                                  Of þis matiere it ouȝte ynowhe suffise
                                
                                  þan tel .I. of ensamples many one
                                
                                  Of Olde stories longe time agone
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                                  For lewde peple louen tales olde
                                
                                  Whiche þinges can þei wele reporte and holde
                                
                                  What trowe ȝe whiles þat .I. maie preche
                                
                                  And wynne gold and siluer for .I. teche
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                                  þat .I. wil leue in pouert wilfully
                                
                                  Nay . nay .I. þouht it neuer treulye
                                
                                  ffor .I. preche and begge in sundre landes
                                
                                  .I. wil nouht do no labour wiþ myn handes
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                                  An[d] make basketes and leue þere-bye
                                
                                  Be-cause .I. wil nouht bigge ydelye
                                
                                  .I. wil none of þe aposteles counterfete
                                
                                  .I. wil haue mony chese and whete
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  Al were it ȝeuen of þe porest page
                                
                                  Eyþer of þe pourest wedowe in a vilage
                                
                                  Al schold hir childerne sterue for famyne
                                
                                  Nay .I. wil drinke þe lycoure of þe vine
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                                  And haue a Ioly wenche in euerych toune
                                
                                  Bot herkeneþ lordynges in conclusione
                                
                                  Ȝoure lykeinge is þat .I. schal tel a tale
                                
                                  Nowe .I. haue dro[n]ke a drauhte of Corne ale
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                                  Be god .I. hope .I. schal tel ȝowe a þinge
                                
                                  þat schal be reson biene at ȝoure lykeinge
                                
                                  ffor þouhe my self be a ful vicious man
                                
                                  A more.-il tale ȝit .I. ȝowe telle can
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                                  Whiche .I. am wont to preche for to wynne
                                
                                  Now holde ȝoure pes my tale .I. wil beginne. [[no break in the MS.]]

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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 440
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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