That on his shyne / a mormal had he
And blanchemangere / mad he with the best
A Shipman there was / þat woned fer by west [¶ A Ship|man]
ffor ought þat I wot / he was of Dertemouthe
he rod vp-on a Rouncy / as wel as he coude
In a gowne of faldyng / vn-to the knee
A daggere hangyng / on a lace had he
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A-boute his nekke / vndir his arme a-doun
The hote somer / had mad his hew al broun
And serteynly / he was a good felawe
fful many a draught / of wyn / had he drawe
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ffro Burdeusward / whiles the chapmen slepe
Of nyce conscience / toke he no kepe
If þat he faught / and had the heyer hand
Be water he sent it home / fro euery lond
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But to reken wel / of his craft the tydes
The stremes and the strandes hym beside is
his herberwe / his mone / and his lodes manage
There was non swich / from hulle in-to cartage
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Hardy he was / and wys / I vndertake
with many a tempest / he had his berd shake
He knew alle the hauenes / as they were
ffro Gutlond / to the Cape de fenistre
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And euery Cryke / fro Bretaigne in-to Spayne
his Barge was called / the Magdaleyne
With vs there was / a Doctour of Phisik [A Doctour of phisyk]
In al þis world / was non him lyk
To speke of Phesik / and of surgerie
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ffor he was grounded / in Astronomye
he kept his pacience / a ful gret dele
In houres by his / magyk / naturele
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Wel coude he fortunen / the accident
Of hise ymages / for be his pacient
he knew the cause / of euery maladye
wheiþer it were cold / hote / moist / or drye [folio 8a]
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and wher-of it engendered / and of what humour
