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

                                
                                     [6-text p 567] 
                                  
                                  But go with ȝou and come wiþ ȝou agayn
                                
                                  The chambur dore schortly for to sayn
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                                  Thay opened and schette and wente forþ here weye
                                
                                  And forth with hem þey caryed þe keye /
                                
                                  And comen agayn wiþouten eny delay /
                                
                                  what schuld I tary al þe longe day
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                                  he took þe chalk/ and schop it in þe wise /
                                
                                  Of an Ingot as I schal ȝow deuyse /
                                
                                  I say he took out of his oughne sleeue
                                
                                  A teyne of siluer euel mot he cheeue
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                                  which þat was but an vnce of wight
                                
                                  And takeþ heed now of his cursed slight
                                
                                  he schop his Ingot/ in lengþe and in brede /
                                
                                  Of þis teyne wiþouten eny drede
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                                  So sleighly þat þe prest it nought aspyde
                                
                                  And in his sleeue agayn he gan it hyde /
                                
                                  And fro þe fuyr he took vp his mateere /
                                
                                  And in to þe Ingot put it with mery cheere /
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                                  And in to þe watir vessel he it cast
                                
                                  whan þat him list and bad þis prest as fast
                                
                                  Loke what þer is put in þin hond and grope
                                
                                  Thou fynde þer siluer schalt as I hope /
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                                  what deuel of helle schold it elles be /
                                
                                  Schauyng of siluer siluer is par de
                                
                                  He putte in his hond and tok vp a teyne
                                
                                  Of siluer fyn and glad in euery veyne;
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                                  was þis prest whan he saugh it was so
                                
                                  Goddes blessyng and his modres also
                                
                                  And alle halwes haue ȝe sire chanoun
                                
                                  Seyde þe prest and I her malisoun
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                                  But and ȝe vouche sauf to teche me [folio 178b] 
                                
                                  This nobil craft and þis subtilite
                                
                                  I wil be ȝoure in al þat euer I may
                                
                                  Quod þis chanoun ȝet wol I make assay
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                                  The secound tyme þat ȝe mow taken heede
                                
                                  And ben expert of þis and in ȝour neede

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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 407
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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