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

                                
                                  My witte is schorte ȝe maie wele vnderstonde
                                
                                  Grete chere maade owre oste vs euerychone
                                
                                  And to þe soper sett he vs anone
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                                  He serued vs wiþe vitailles att þe beste
                                
                                  Stronge was þe wyne and wele drinke vs leste
                                
                                  A semely man owre ost was wiþ all
                                
                                  ffor to bene a marschal in a lordes hall
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                                  A large man he was wiþ eyȝen stepe
                                
                                  A fairer burgeis is none none in chepe
                                
                                  Bolde of his speche and wyse and wele y-tawht
                                
                                  And of manhode him lakked riht nouht
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                                  Eke þere-to he was riht a mery man [folio 11a] 
                                
                                  And after soper pleyȝen he be-gan
                                
                                  And spak of Mirþe amonge oþere þinges
                                
                                  Whan þat we had maade owre rekenynges
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                                  And seide þus Now lordeynges trewly
                                
                                  Ȝe bene to me welcome riht hertly
                                
                                  ffor be my trouþe if þat .I. schal notte lye
                                
                                  .I. sawe nouht þis ȝere so mery a companye
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                                  Att ones in þis herburhe as is nowe
                                
                                  ffayne wolde .I. done ȝowe merþe wist .I. howe
                                
                                  And of a merþe .I. am riht nowe be-þouhte
                                
                                  To done ȝowe ese and it schal cost nowhte
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                                  ¶ Ȝe gone to Canterbury god ȝowe spede
                                
                                  The blisful Martir white ȝow ȝowre mede
                                
                                  And wele .I. wote as ȝe gone be þe weye
                                
                                  Sche schapen ȝowe to talen and to pleye
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                                  ffor trewly comforþe and merþe is none
                                
                                  To riden be þe waie dom as any stone
                                
                                  And þer-for wil .I. maken ȝowe disporte
                                
                                  As .I. seide arst and do ȝow som comforte
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                                  And if ȝowe likeþ all be on assente
                                
                                  ffor to stonden at My Iuggemente
                                
                                  And for to werken as .I. schal ȝowe seie
                                
                                  To morwen whan we riden be þe weie
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                                  Nowe be Mi fader sow[l]e þat is dede

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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 22
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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