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

                                
                                     [6-text p 396] 
                                  
                                  Nedith no more to speken of it saith he /
                                
                                  But if me list of myn humilite.
                                
                                  Ȝif me þan of þy good to make our cloyster [folio 114a] 
                                
                                  Quod he for many a muscle and many an oyster
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                                  haþ ben oure foode our Cloyster to arreyse
                                
                                  whan oþer men han ben ful wel at eyse
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot vnnethe þe foundement
                                
                                  Parformed is ne of oure pauyment
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                                  Is nought a tyle ȝit wiþinne our wones
                                
                                  By god we owe ȝit fourty pound for stones
                                
                                  Now help Thomas for him þat harewed helle
                                
                                  Or elles moote we oure bookes selle
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                                  And ȝif ȝow lakke oure predicacioun
                                
                                  Thanne goþ þe world al to destruccioun
                                
                                  For who-so wold vs fro þe world byreue
                                
                                  So god me saue Thomas by ȝoure leue
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                                  he wolde byreue out of þis world þe sonne
                                
                                  For who can teche. and werken as we conne
                                
                                  And þis is not of litel tyme quod he
                                
                                  But siþþen Elye was her or ele
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                                  han freres ben fynde I of record
                                
                                  In charite I-þanked be oure lord
                                
                                  Now Thomas help for seynte charite
                                
                                  A-doun he sette him anoon on his kne
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                                  This sike man wex welneigh wood for Ire
                                
                                  he wolde þat þe frere had ben on fuyre
                                
                                  with his fals dissimulacioun
                                
                                  Such þing as is in my possessioun
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                                  Quod he þat may I ȝeue ȝow and noon oþer
                                
                                  Ȝe sayn me þus how þat I am ȝour broþer
                                
                                  Ȝe certes quod þe frere trusteth wel
                                
                                  I took our dame þe letter vnder oure sel
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                                  Now wel quod he and som what schal I ȝiue
                                
                                  Vnto ȝour holy couent whils þat I lyue
                                
                                  And in þyn hond þou schalt it haue anoon
                                
                                  On þis condicioun and oþer noon

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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 256
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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