And many a brem and many a luce in stewe
Woo was his Cook but if his sauce were
Poynant and scharp and redy al his gere
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His table dormant in his halle alway·
Stood redy couered al þe longe day
At sessions þer was he lord and sire
Ful ofte tyme he was knight of þe schire
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An Anlas and a gipser al of silk
heng at his gerdul whit as morne mylk
A schirreue hadde he ben and a counter
was nowher such a worthi vauaser
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AN haburdassher and a Carpenter
A webbe a deyer and a Tapicer
weren with vss eeke clothed in oo lyuere
Of a solempne and gret fraternite
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Ful freissh and newe his gere piked was
Here knyfes were I-chapud nat with bras
But al with siluer wrought ful clene and wel
here gurdles and here pouches euery del
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wel semed eche of hem a fair burgeys
To sitten in a ȝeldehalle on þe deys
Euery man for þe wisdom þat he can
was schaply for to ben an aldurman ·
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For Catel hadde þey Inough and rente /
And eek here wyfes wolde it wel assente /
And elles certeyn hadde þei ben to blame
It is right fair for to be clept Ma Dame
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And for to go to vigilies al byfore
And han a mantel rially I-bore
A Cook þei hadde with hem for þe nones
To boyle chiknes and þe mary bones
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And poudre marchaunt / tart and galyngale [folio 6a]
wel cowde he knowe a drauȝt of londoun ale
He cowde roste sethe boille and frie
Make mortreux and wel bake a pye
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But gret harm was it as it semede me
