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

Incipit prologus [on leaf 180, back]

                                    
                                      BOt þan spak oure Oste vnto Maister schipman
                                    
                                      Maister quod he to vs summe tale tel ȝe can
                                    
                                      Where-withe ȝe myht glad al þis company
                                    
                                      If it were ȝoure pleseinge .I. wote wele sekurlye
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                                      Sertes quod þis Schipman a tale .I. can tell
                                    
                                      And þe[r]-fore herkeneþ hyderward how þat .I. wil spell

Explicit prologus.

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About this Item

Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 456
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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Full citation: "The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/agz8236.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025.