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

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                                    LOrdyngs quod he in chirche whan I preche [¶ Narrat] 
                                  
                                    I peyne me to haue an hauteyn speche /
                                  
                                    And ryng it out as lowd as doþ a belle
                                  
                                    For I can al by rote þat I telle
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                                    My teeme is alway oon and euer was
                                  
                                    Radix omnium malorum est Cupiditas
                                  
                                    First I pronounce whennes þat I come
                                  
                                    And þanne my bulles schewe I alle and some [folio 186a] 
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                                    Oure liege lordes seal vpon my patent
                                  
                                    That schewe I first my body to warent/
                                  
                                    That no man be so hardy prest ne clerk
                                  
                                    Me to destourbe of cristes holy werk
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                                    And after þat þan tel I forth my tales
                                  
                                    Bulles of popes and of Cardynales /
                                  
                                    Of patriarkes and of bisshops I schewe
                                  
                                    And in latyn speke I wordes fewe /
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                                    To sauore with my predicacioun
                                  
                                    And for to stere hem to deuocioun
                                  
                                    Thanne schewe I forth my longe cristal stoones
                                  
                                    I-crammed ful of cloutes and of boones
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                                    Reliks þay ben as wene þei echoon
                                  
                                    Than haue I in latoun a schulder boon
                                  
                                    which þat was of an holy Iewes scheep
                                  
                                    Good men say I tak of my wordes keep
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                                    If þat þis boon be waische in eny welle /
                                  
                                    If cow or calf or scheep or oxe swelle
                                  
                                    That eny worm haþ ete or worm I-stonge
                                  
                                    Tak water of þat welle and waisch his tonge

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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 426
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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