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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

There as the lord was keper of þe sell 172 The rewle of seint Maure or of seint Benet By-cause it was olde and somdele streyt This ilk monke lete olde thinges passe And helde after þe newe world his space 176 He gaue nat at þat tixt a pulled hen That seith þat honnters be nat holy men Ne þat a monke whan he is recheles Ys lykned to a fyssh þat is waterles 180 This is to seyn a monke out of his cloystre But þat tixt helde I nought worth an oystre And I seide his oppenyon was gode What shold he stody and make hym self wode 184 Vp-on a boke in Cloystre all wey to pore Or swynke with his hondes and labore As Austyn bit ya how shall þe world be serued Lete Austyn haue his swynk to hym reserued 188 Þerfore he was a prykasour aryght Greyhoundes he hade as swyft as foule of flyght On prekyng and huntyng for the hare Was all his lust for no thing wold he spare 192 I sawe his sleves purfyled at þe hande With gryse and þat þe fynest of a londe And for to festyn his hode vndre his chyn He hade of gold wrought a full coryous pyn 196 A loue knot in þe gretter ende þere was His hede was balled þat shone as ony glas And eke his face as he hade ben anoynte He was a lord full fat and in good poynte 200 His yen stepe were and rollyng in his hede [Eg. 2726 folio 3b] That stemed as a fourneys of a lede His botes souple his hors in grete state Now certeinly he was a feire prelate 204 He was nought pale as a forpyned gost A fat swan loved he best of any rost His palfray was as broun as a bery
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The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,
1902.

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