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

                                
                                  Þare couþe no man bringe him in arerage
                                
                                  Thare nas Baillif ne herde ne oþere hyne
                                
                                  That he ne knewe his sleyht and his Couyne
                                  Line 604 
                                
                                  Thei were adrad of him as of þe deþe
                                
                                  His wonynge was ful faire vpon an heþe
                                
                                  Wiþ grene trees schadowed was his place
                                
                                  He couþe better þan his lorde purchace
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                                  fful riche he was astored priuely
                                
                                  His lord he couþe wele plese subtily
                                
                                  To ȝiue and lenne him of his owen goode
                                
                                  And haue a þonke and ȝit a cote and an hoode
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                                  In ȝowþe he had lerned a good mistere
                                
                                  He was a wel goode wriht a carpentere
                                
                                  This satt vpon a fol goode stot
                                
                                  That was a pomely greye and hihte Scot
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                                  A longe surcote of peers vpon he hadde
                                
                                  And be his side he bare a rusti blade
                                
                                  Of Norþefolk was þis reue whiche .I. tell
                                
                                  Be-siden a towne men clepen it baldeswell
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                                  Tukked he was as is a frere abowte
                                
                                  And euere he rode hinderest of owre Rowte
                                
                                  ¶ A Somynour was þer wiþ vs in þat place
                                
                                  Þat had a firy Cherubynnes face
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                                  ffor sausefleme he was with yhen narowe
                                
                                  Als hote he was and licherous as a sparowe
                                
                                  Wiþ scalled browes blake and a pilled berde
                                
                                  Of his vesage childerne were aferde
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                                  Ther nas whike-siluer litarge or bremstone
                                
                                  Boras orsure ne oyle of tartre none
                                
                                  Ne oyment þat wolde clense and bite [folio 9b] 
                                
                                  That him myht helpe of his whelkes white
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                                  Nere of þe knobbes sittinge in his chekes
                                
                                  Wele loued he garlike onyons and ȝite lekes
                                
                                  And for to drinke stronge wyne rede as blode
                                
                                  Than wold he speke and crie as he ware wode
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                                  And whan þat he wele drongen had þe wyne

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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 18
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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