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

                                
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                                  I preche so as ȝe haue herd bifore
                                
                                  And telle hem an hondred Iapes more
                                
                                  Than peyne I me to strecche forþ my necke
                                
                                  And est and west vpon þe poeple I bekke
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                                  As doþ a dowfe syttyng on a berne
                                
                                  Myn hondes and my tonge goon so ȝerne
                                
                                  That it is ioye to se my busynesse
                                
                                  Of auarice and of such cursednesse
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                                  Is al my preching for to make hem fre
                                
                                  To ȝeue here pans and namely vnto me
                                
                                  For myn entent is nought but for to wynne
                                
                                  And no þing for correccioun of synne
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                                  I rekke neuer. when þay ben I-beryed
                                
                                  Though þat here soules gone a blakeberyed
                                
                                  For certes many a predicacioun
                                
                                  Comeþ ofte tyme of euel entencioun
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                                  Som for plesauns of folk and flaterie
                                
                                  To ben auaunced by ypocrisie
                                
                                  And som for veine gloir and som for hate
                                
                                  For whan I dar not oþer weys debate [folio 187a] 
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                                  Than wil I stynge him with my tonge smerte
                                
                                  In preching so þat he schal not astert
                                
                                  To be diffamed falsly if þat he
                                
                                  haþ trespast to my breþeren or to me
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                                  For þough I telle not his propre name
                                
                                  Men schal wel knowe þat it is þe same /
                                
                                  By signes and by oþer circumstaunces
                                
                                  Thus quyt I folk þat doon vs displesaunces
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                                  Thus put I out my venym vnder hiewe
                                
                                  Of holynes. to seme holy and trewe /
                                
                                  But schortly myn entent I wol deuyse
                                
                                  I preche no þing but of coueityse
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                                  Therfor my teem is ȝit and euer was
                                
                                  Radix omnium. malorum est Cupiditas
                                
                                  Thus can I preche agayn þe same vice
                                
                                  which þat I vse and þat is auarice

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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 428
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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