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

                                
                                     [6-text p 590] 
                                  
                                  For euery man saue þoue haþe told his tale
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                                  vnbukel and schewe vs what is in þi male
                                
                                  For treuly me þinkeþ be þi chere
                                
                                  Thow scholdest knyht vpe wele a grete matier
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                                  Tel vs a fable anone for kokkes bones [folio 230a] 
                                
                                  þis persone ansewerd al att ones
                                
                                  þou getest fable none ytolde for me
                                
                                  For Poule þat writeþ vn-to Timothe
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                                  Repreueþ hem þat veyfen soþefastnesse
                                
                                  And tellen fabels & suche wrechednesse
                                
                                  Whi shold .I. schewen draf out of my fest
                                
                                  Whan .I. may schewe whete if þat me lest
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                                  For whiche .I. saie if þat þe lust to here
                                
                                  Moralite & vertuous Matiere
                                
                                  And þan þat ȝe wil ȝef me audience
                                
                                  .I. wil ful feyne att cristes Reuerence
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                                  Done ȝowe plesance lefful as .I. canne
                                
                                  Bot trusteþ wele .I. am a soþerne manne
                                
                                  .I. can nouht geste. Rom Ram . Ruf be my lettre
                                
                                  Ne god wote Rime holde .I. bot litel better
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                                  And þerefor if ȝowe luste .I. wil not glose
                                
                                  .I. wil ȝowe tel a mere tale in prose
                                
                                  To knyte vp al þis fest & maake an ende
                                
                                  An ihesu for his grace witte me sende
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                                  To schew ȝow þe waye in þis viage
                                
                                  Of þilke parfite gloriouse pilgrenage
                                
                                  Þat hiht Ierusalem Celestiall
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouche saue a-none ȝe schall
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                                  Beginne vpon my tale for whiche .I. preye
                                
                                  Tell ȝoure avise .I. can no better seye
                                
                                  Bot naþeles þis Meditacione
                                
                                  .I. put it alweie in correctione
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                                  Of clerkes for .I. am nouht text wele
                                
                                  I take bot þe sentence trusteþ wele
                                
                                  Thare-fore .I. maake a prodestacione
                                
                                  þat .I. wil stant to correctione

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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 603
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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