[6-text p 401]
That equally þe soun of it wol wende /
And eek þe stynk vnto þe spokes ende
Saue þat þis worþy man ȝour confessour
By cause he is a man of gret honour
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Schal haue þe firste fruyt as resoun is
The noble vsage of freres is þis
The worthy men of hem first schal be serued
As certeynly he haþ it wel deserued
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he hath to day taught vs so mochil good
with preching in þe pulpit þer he stood
That I may vouche sauf I say for me
He hadde þe firste smel of fartes þre
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And so wold al his couent hardily
he berith him so fair and holily
The lord þe lady and ech man sauf þe frere
Sayde þan Iankyn spak in þis matiere
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As wel as euclide or elles protholome [folio 116b]
Touchand þe clerk þay sayd þat subtilte
An high wyt made him speken as he spak
he nas no fool ne no demoniak /
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And Iankyn haþ I-wonne a newe goune
My tale is don. we ben almost at toune.
¶ Here endith the sompnours tale [[No break in the MS.]]
