Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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

Bot alþer best he songe a offertory fful wele he wist whan þat songe was songe He moste preche and wele affile his tonge 712 To wynne siluer as he wele cowde Þere-fore he songe so merely and loude ¶ Nowe haue .I. tolde ȝowe soþely in a clause [folio 10b] The estate. þe arraye. þe Nombre and eke þe cause 716 Whi þat assembled was þis companye In Suthewerke att þis gentil Hosterie þat hiht þe taberd fast be þe belle Bot nowe is time to ȝowe for to telle 720 Howe þat we beren vs þat ilke nyhte Whan we were in þat Osterye alyhte And after wil .I. tell of owre viage And al þe remenant of owre pilgrenage 724 Bot first .I. preye ȝowe of ȝoure curtesie That ȝe ne ret it nowht my velenye Thoughe þat .I. pleinly speke in þis matier To telle ȝowe her wordes and eke her chere 728 Ne þouhe .I. speke here wordes propurly ffor þis ȝe knowen as wele as .I. Who so sal tellen a tale after a mān He mote reherce as nyhe as euer he cān 732 Eueryche a worde if it be in his charge Al speke he neuer so rudeli and so large. Or elles he most tel his tale vntrewe Or feyne þinges. or fynde wordes Newe 736 He may nouht spare al-þouhe he ware his broþer He mot also wele seie o worde as a-nother Criste spak him self ful brode in holy writte And wele ȝe wote no velany is itte 740 Eke plato seiþe who so kan him rede The wordes most be Cosin to þe dede ¶ Also .I. preie ȝowe for-ȝif it me Al haue .I. not sett folke in her degre 744 Here in þis tale as þat þei scholde stonde
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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