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

                                
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                                  And vpe þei stert al dronken in þis rage
                                
                                  And forþe þei gone to-warde þat vilage
                                
                                  Of whiche þe tauernere haþ spoken be-forne
                                
                                  And mony a grisely oþe þen haue þei sworne
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                                  And cristes blissed bodie þei to-rent
                                
                                  Deþ schal be dede if þat we maie him hent
                                
                                  Whan þei haue gone nouht fully a myle
                                
                                  Riht as þe[i] wolde haue troden ouere a style
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                                  An olde and a pouer man wiþ hem he mette
                                
                                  This olde man ful mekely hem grette
                                
                                  And seide þus nowe lordes god ȝowe see
                                
                                  þe proudeste of þes ryetoures þre
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                                  Anseward aȝeine what carle wiþ hard grace
                                
                                  Whi art þou al for-wrapped saue þi face
                                
                                  Whi leuest þou so longe in so grete age
                                
                                  This olde man gan loke in his visage
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                                  And seid þus; for .I. can nouȝt finde
                                
                                  A man þouhe þat .I. walked vnto ynde
                                
                                  Neyþer in Cite ne in village.
                                
                                  That wil chaunge his ȝouþe for myne age [folio 178a] 
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                                  And þerfore most .I. haue my age stille
                                
                                  As longe time as it is goddes wille
                                
                                  Ne deþe alas ne wil nouht haue my lyue
                                
                                  þus walke .I. lyke a risteles chaitif
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                                  And on þe grounde whyche is my moders gate
                                
                                  .I. knok wiþ my staf erly and late
                                
                                  And seye leue moder lete me inne
                                
                                  Lo howe .I. wane boþe flesche blode and scynne
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                                  Alas when schol my lones bien att rest
                                
                                  Moder wiþ ȝowe wold .I. chaunge my chest
                                
                                  Thatt in my chambre longe time haþ be
                                
                                  Ȝe for an here cloute to wrappe me
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                                  Bot ȝut to me sche wil nouȝt do þat grace
                                
                                  For whiche ful pale and welked is my face
                                
                                  Bot sires to ȝowe it is no curtesie
                                
                                  To speken vnto an hold man vilanye

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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 448
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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