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

                                
                                     [6-text p 391] 
                                  
                                  And chast was man in paradis certeyn [folio 111b] 
                                
                                  But now herk/ thomas . what I schal þe seyn
                                
                                  I ne haue no tixt of it as I suppose /
                                
                                  But I schal fynd it in a maner glose /
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  That specially our swete lord ihc
                                
                                  Spak þis by freres whan he sayde þus
                                
                                  Blessed be þay þat pouer in spirit ben
                                
                                  And so forþ in þe gospel ȝe may seen
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  wheþer it be likir oure professioun
                                
                                  Or heris þat swymmen in possessioun
                                
                                  Fy on her pomp and on her glotenye
                                
                                  And on her lewydnesse I hem defye
                                  Line 1928 
                                
                                  Me þinkith þay ben lik Iouynian
                                
                                  Fat as a whal and walken as a swan
                                
                                  Al vinolent as botel in þe spence
                                
                                  her prayer is of ful gret reuerence
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                                  whan þay for soules sayn þe psalm of dauid
                                
                                  lo boef þay say . Cor meum eructauit
                                
                                  who folwith cristes gospel and his fore
                                
                                  But we þat humble ben and chast and pore
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  werkers of goddes word and auditours
                                
                                  Ther-for right as an hauk vpon a sours
                                
                                  vpspringeth in to þaer right so prayeres
                                
                                  Of charitabil and chaste busy freres
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                                  Maken her sours to goddis eeres tuo
                                
                                  Thomas thomas so mote I ryde or go
                                
                                  And by þat lord þat clepid is seint Iue
                                
                                  Ner þou oure broþer schuldestow neuer þriue
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                                  In oure chapitre pray we day and night
                                
                                  To crist þat he þe sende hele and might
                                
                                  Thy body for to welden hastily
                                
                                  God wot quod he þer-of nought feele I .
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  As help me crist as I in fewe ȝeeres
                                
                                  haue spendid vpon many diuers freres
                                
                                  Ful many a pound ȝit fare I neuer þe bet
                                
                                  Certeyn my good haue I almost byset/

                                  Line 1952

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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 251
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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