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 ...

                                
                                  The ferthest / in his parissh / moche and lite
                                
                                  Vp-on his feet / and in his hond a staf
                                
                                  This noble ensaumple / to his shepe he ȝaf
                                  Line 496 
                                
                                  That first he wrouȝt / and afterward he taught
                                
                                  Ouȝt of þe gospel / he tho wordes caught
                                
                                  And this figure / he added eke ther-to
                                
                                  That if gold rust / what shuld Iren do
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                                  ffor if a preest be foul / on whom we trust
                                
                                  no wonder is / a lewed man to rust
                                
                                  And shame it is / if a preest take kepe
                                  Line 503 
                                
                                  To se a sheton shepherde / & a clene shepe [[Dd. 4. 24 ends; leaves 9, 10, 11 gone]] 
                                
                                  Wele aught a prest ensaumple for to yeve [Egerton begins, on leaf 7] 
                                
                                  By his clennes how þat his shepe shold leve
                                
                                  He set nought his benefice to hire
                                
                                  And lete his shepe accombred in the mire
                                  Line 508 
                                
                                  Ne renne to london to Seint Poules
                                
                                  To seche hym a chauntry for soules
                                
                                  Or be with a bretherhede withhold
                                
                                  But dwelled at home and kept wele his fold
                                  Line 512 
                                
                                  So þat þe wolf made þere no maistrye
                                
                                  He was a shepard and not a mersonarye
                                
                                  And though he holy were and vertuous
                                
                                  He was nat with synfull men despitous
                                  Line 516 
                                
                                  Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne
                                
                                  But in his speche discrete and benigne
                                
                                  To drawen folk to heven by feirenesse
                                
                                  By gode ensaumple þis was his besynesse
                                  Line 520 
                                
                                  But and he knewe ony person obstenate
                                
                                  Whether he were hiegh or lowe astate
                                
                                  Hym wold he snebbe for þe nones
                                
                                  A better prest I trowe nowhere none ys [Eg. 2726 folio 7b] 
                                  Line 524 
                                
                                  He awayted after no pompe ne reuerence
                                
                                  Ne made hym a spiced conscience
                                
                                  But cristes lore and his Appostels xij
                                
                                  He caught but furst he folowed it him selve
                                  Line 528 
                                
                                  Wyth hym þere was a plowman was his brothere

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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 15
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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