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

                                
                                     [6-text p 571] 
                                  
                                  Sire at a word if þat ȝe lust it haue
                                
                                  Ȝe schul pay fourty pound so god me saue / [folio 180a] 
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                                  And nere þe frendschipe þat ȝe dede er þis
                                
                                  To me. ȝe schulde paye more I-wys
                                
                                  This prest þe somme of fourty pound anoon
                                
                                  Of nobles fette and took hem euerychoon
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                                  To þis chanoun for þis ilk receyt
                                
                                  Al his werkyng nas but fraude and deceyt/
                                
                                  Sire prest he seyde I kepe haue no loos
                                
                                  Of my craft for I wold it kept were cloos
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                                  And as ȝe loueth me kepeþ it secre
                                
                                  For and men knewe / al my sotilte
                                
                                  By god men wolden haue so gret enuye
                                
                                  To me by cause of my philosophie
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                                  I schulde be deed þer were noon oþer weye
                                
                                  God it forbede quoþ þe prest what seye
                                
                                  ȝet had I leuer spenden al þe good
                                
                                  which þat I haue and elles wax I wood
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                                  Than þat ȝe schulde falle in such meschief
                                
                                  For ȝour good wil sir haue ȝe right good preef
                                
                                  Quoþ þe chanoun· and far wel graunt mercy
                                
                                  he went his way and neuer þe prest him sey
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                                  After þis day and whan þat þis prest scholde /
                                
                                  Maken assay at such tyme as he wolde /
                                
                                  Of þis receyt far wel it wold not be /
                                
                                  lo þus byiaped and bygilt was he
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                                  Thus makeþ he his introductioun
                                
                                  To bringe folk to here destruccioun
                                
                                  Considereth sires how þat in ech astaat
                                
                                  Bitwixe men and gold þer is debaat
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                                  So ferforth þat vnneþe þer is noon
                                
                                  This multiplying blent so many oon
                                
                                  That in good faith I trowe þat it be /
                                
                                  The cause grettest of which skarsete
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                                  Philosophres speken so mistyly
                                
                                  In þis craft þat men conne not come þer by

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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 411
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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