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

                                
                                     [6-text p 397] 
                                  
                                  That þou depart it so my deere broþer
                                
                                  That euery frere haue as moche as oþer
                                
                                  Thy schaltow swere on þy professioun
                                
                                  wiþouten fraude or cauillacioun
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                                  I swere it quod þis frere vpon my faith [folio 114b] 
                                
                                  And þer-with his hond in his he laith
                                
                                  lo her myn hond in me schal be no lak
                                
                                  Now þanne put þyn hond doun at my bak
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                                  Sayde þis man and grope wel byhynde
                                
                                  Bynethe my buttok þere schaltow fynde
                                
                                  A þing þat I haue hud in priuete
                                
                                  A þought þis frere þat schal go with me /
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                                  And doun his hond he launched to þe clifte
                                
                                  In hope for to fynde þer a ȝifte
                                
                                  And whan þis syke man felte þis frere
                                
                                  Aboute his tuel grope þer and heere
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                                  Amyd his hond he leet þe freere a fart
                                
                                  Ther is no capul drawyng in a cart
                                
                                  That might haue let a fart of such a soun
                                
                                  The frere vpstart as doth a wood lyoun
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                                  A false cherl quod he for goddes bones
                                
                                  This hastow in despit don for þe noones
                                
                                  Thou schalt abye þis fart if þat I may
                                
                                  his meyne which þat herd of þis affray
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                                  Com lepand In and chased out þe frere
                                
                                  And forth he goþ wiþ a foul angry cheere
                                
                                  And fat his felaw þere lay his stoor
                                
                                  he lokid as it were a wylde boor
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                                  And grynte with his teeþ so was he wroth
                                
                                  A stordy paas doun to þe court he goth
                                
                                  wher as þer wonyd a man of gret honour
                                
                                  To whom þat he was alway confessour
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                                  This worþy man was lord of þat / village
                                
                                  This frere com as he were in a rage
                                
                                  wher þat þis lord sat etyng at his bord
                                
                                  Vnneþe might þe frere speke a word

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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 257
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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