The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Ther as þe lord was keper of þe selle
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  The Reule of seynt maure or of seint Beneyt
                                
                                  By cause þat it was old and somdel streyt
                                
                                  This ilke monk leet forby hem pace
                                
                                  And helde aftur þe newe world þe space
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  he ȝaf nat of þat text a pulled hen
                                
                                  That seiþ þat hunters been noon holy men
                                
                                  Ne þat a monk whan he is Cloysterles
                                
                                  Is likned to a fissche þat is watirles
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  This is to seyn a monk out of his cloystre
                                
                                  But þilke text hild he not worþ an oystre /
                                
                                  And I seide his opinioun was good
                                
                                  what schulde he studie and make himseluen wood
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  Vppon a book in Cloystre alway to powre
                                
                                  Or swynke with his handes and laboure
                                
                                  As Austyn byt // how schal þe world be serued
                                
                                  lat austyn haue his swynk to him reserued
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  Therfore he was a pricasour aright
                                
                                  Greyhoundes he hadde as swifte as fowel in flight
                                
                                  Of prikyng and of huntyng for þe hare [folio 3b] 
                                
                                  was al his lust for no cost wolde he spare
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  I saugh his sleues purfiled atte hond
                                
                                  wiþ grys and that þe fynest of a lond
                                
                                  And for to festne his hood vndur his chyn
                                
                                  he hadde of gold y-wrought a curious pyn
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  A loue knotte in þe gretter ende þer was
                                
                                  His heed was ballid and schon as eny glas
                                
                                  And eek his face as he hadde be anoynt
                                
                                  he was a lord ful fat and in good poynt
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                                  his eyen steep and rollyng in his heed
                                
                                  That stemed as a forneys of a leed
                                
                                  His bootes souple his hors in gret estat
                                
                                  Now certeinly he was a fair prelat
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  he was not pale as a for-pyned goost
                                
                                  A fat swan loued he best of eny roost
                                
                                  His palfray was as broun as eny berye

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 6
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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