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

                                
                                     [6-text p 315] 
                                  
                                  And it is hool anoon and forþer-more
                                
                                  Of pokkes and of scabbe and euery sore /
                                
                                  Schal euery scheep be hool þat of þis welle
                                
                                  That drynketh a draught tak heed eek what I telle
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                                  If þat þe goode man þat þe beest oweþ
                                
                                  wol euery wike er þat þe cok him croweþ
                                
                                  Fastynge drynke / of þis welle a draught
                                
                                  As þilke holy Iew oure eldres taught
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                                  His beestes and his stoor schal multiplie
                                
                                  And sires also it kelith Ialousie
                                
                                  For þough a man be ful in ialous rage
                                
                                  let make wiþ þis water his potage
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                                  And neuer schal he more his wyf mys trist
                                
                                  þough he þe soþ of hir defaute wist
                                
                                  Al hadde sche take prestes tuo or þre
                                
                                  her is a meteyn eek þat ȝe may see
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                                  he þat his honde put in þis metayn
                                
                                  he schal haue multiplying of grayn [folio 186b] 
                                
                                  whan he haþ sowen. be it whete or otes
                                
                                  So þat ȝe offre pans or elles grootes
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                                  And men and wommen oon þing warne I ȝow
                                
                                  If eny wight be in þis chirche now
                                
                                  That haþ doon synne orrible þat he
                                
                                  Dar nought for schame of it schryuen be
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                                  Or ony womman be sche ȝong or old
                                
                                  That hath y-maad hir housbond cokewold
                                
                                  which folk schal haue no power ne grace
                                
                                  To offre to my relikes in þis place
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                                  And who so fint him out of suche blame
                                
                                  Thay wol come vp and offre in goddes name
                                
                                  And I assoile hem by þe auctorite
                                
                                  which þat by bulle. was I-graunted me
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                                  By þis gaude haue I wonne euery ȝeer
                                
                                  An hundred mark syn I was pardoner
                                
                                  I stonde lik a clerk in my pulpit
                                
                                  And whan þe lewed poeple is doun I-set

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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 427
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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