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

                                
                                     [6-text p 376] 
                                  
                                  what I may gete . in counseil priuely
                                
                                  No more consciens of þat haue I
                                
                                  Nere myn extorcions I might not lyuen
                                
                                  Ne of such iapes I wil not be schriuen
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                                  Stomak ne conscience . know I noon
                                
                                  I schrew þes schriftefadres euerychoon
                                
                                  wel be we met by god and by seint Iame
                                
                                  But leue broþer telle me þy name
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                                  Quod þis sompnour in þis mene while
                                
                                  This ȝeman gan a litel for to smyle
                                
                                  Broþir quod he woltow þat I þe telle
                                
                                  I am a feend my dwellyng is in helle
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                                  And her I ryde about my purchasyng
                                
                                  To wite wher men wol ȝiue me eny þing
                                
                                  My purchas is þeffect of al my rent
                                
                                  loke how þou ridest for þe same entent/
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                                  To wynne good þou rekkist neuer how
                                
                                  Right so fare I for ryde I wolde now
                                
                                  vnto þe worldes ende for a pray
                                
                                  A quod þe sompnour benedicite what ȝe say
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                                  I wende ȝe were a ȝeman trewely
                                
                                  ȝe han a mannes schap as wel as I
                                
                                  haue ȝe a figure . þan determinate
                                
                                  In helle þer ȝe ben in ȝour estate /
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                                  Nay certeynly quod he þer haue we non
                                
                                  But whan vs likith we can make vs on
                                
                                  Or ellis make ȝow seme þat we ben schape [folio 105b] 
                                
                                  Som tyme like a man or like an ape
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                                  Or lik aungel can I ryde or go
                                
                                  It is no wonder þing þough it be so
                                
                                  A lousy iogelour can decyue þe
                                
                                  And parfay ȝit / can I more craft þan he
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                                  ¶ why quod þis sompnour ryde ȝe þan or goon
                                
                                  In sondry wyse and nouȝt alway in oon
                                
                                  For quod he we wol vs in such forme make
                                
                                  As most abil is . oure pray to take /

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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 236
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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