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

                                
                                     [6-text p 366] 
                                  
                                  And þerto comen of so lowh a kynde
                                
                                  That litil wonder is þough I walwe and wynde
                                
                                  So wolde god myn herte wolde brest
                                
                                  Is þis quod sche þe cause of ȝour vnrest;
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                                  Ȝe certeynly quod he no wonder is
                                
                                  Now sire quod sche I couþe amende al þis
                                
                                  If þat me list er it were dayes þre /
                                
                                  So wel ȝe mighte bere ȝow to me
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                                  But for ȝe speken of such gentilesse
                                
                                  As is descendit out of old richesse
                                
                                  Therfor schuld ȝe . ben holden gentil men
                                
                                  Such arrogaunce . is not worth an hen
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                                  lok who þat is most vertuous alway
                                
                                  Priue and pert and most entendiþ ay
                                
                                  To do þe gentil dedes þat he can
                                
                                  Tak him for þe grettest gentil man
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                                  Crist wol we clayme of him oure gentilesse
                                
                                  Nought of oure eldres for our gret richesse
                                
                                  For þough þey ȝiue vs al her heritage
                                
                                  For which we clayme to be of high parage
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                                  Ȝit may þay not biqueþe for no þing
                                
                                  To noon of vs so vertuous lyuyng
                                
                                  That made hem gentil men y-callid be [folio 101a] 
                                
                                  And bad vs folwe hem in such degre
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                                  wel can þe wyse poet of Florence
                                
                                  That hatte Daunt speke of þis sentence /
                                
                                  Lo in such maner of rym is Dauntes tale
                                
                                  Ful seeld vprisith by his braunchis smale /
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                                  Prowes of man . for god of his prowesse
                                
                                  wol þat we clayme of him our gentilesse
                                
                                  For of our auncestres . we no þing clayme
                                
                                  But temporal þing þat men may hurt and mayme
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                                  Ek euery wight wot þis as wel as I
                                
                                  If gentiles were plaunted naturelly
                                
                                  Vnto a certayn lignage doun þe line
                                
                                  Priue ne apert/. þay wolde neuer fine

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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 226
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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