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 ...

                                  
                                    Afrere þere was a wanton and a mery
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                                    A lymytour and a full solempne man
                                  
                                    In þe orders iiij · ys non so wele þat can
                                  
                                    So moche of daliaunce and feire langage
                                  
                                    He hade made full many a feire mariage
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                                    Of yong wommen at his owen coste
                                  
                                    Vn-to his ordre he was a noble poste
                                  
                                    ffull wele beloved and famuler was he
                                  
                                    with fraunkleyns ouer all in his contre
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                                    And with worthy wommen of þe toun
                                  
                                    ffor he hadde power of confession
                                  
                                    . . . . .
                                  
                                    . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                    ffor swetely herde he confession
                                  
                                    And plesaunt was his absolucon
                                  
                                    he was an esy man to yeve penaunce
                                  
                                    There as he wist to haue a gode petaunce
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                                    ffor vn-to a poure ordre for to geve
                                  
                                    Ys syngne þat a man ys wele shreve
                                  
                                    ffor yf he gaf he durst make auaunt
                                  
                                    He wist þat a man was repentaunt
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                                    ffor many a man so herde ys of his hert
                                  
                                    He may nought wepe all þough hym sore smert
                                  
                                    Therfore in-stede of penaunce and prayers
                                  
                                    Men most yeve silver to þe poure freres
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                                    His typpet / was ay farsed full of knyves
                                  
                                    And pynnes for to yeve feire wyves
                                  
                                    And certeinly he hade a mery note
                                  
                                    Wele coude he syng and pley on a rote
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                                    Of yeddynges he bare outerly þe prys
                                  
                                    His nek was white as a floure delys
                                  
                                    Therto he was stronge as a champyon
                                  
                                    He knewe the tauernes wele in euery toun
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                                    And euery hostiller and tapstere
                                  
                                    Better þan a laser or a beggere
                                  
                                    ffor vn-to soch a worthy man as he

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 7
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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