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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 549] 
                                  
                                  Seide this ȝeman / and in wordes fewe
                                
                                  Hoost of his craft / som-what I wol ȝow shewe
                                
                                  I seye my lord can / suche sotiltee
                                
                                  But al his craft / ȝe moun nat wyte of me
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                                  And som-what helpe I ȝet / to his werkyng
                                
                                  That al this grounde / on which we ben ridyng
                                
                                  Til that we come / to Caunterbury Toun
                                
                                  he coude al clene / turnen vp so doun
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                                  And paue it al of siluer / and of golde
                                
                                  And whan this ȝeman / had this tale I-tolde
                                
                                  Vn-to oure host / he seide benedicite
                                
                                  This thyng / is wonder merueillous / to me
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                                  Syn þat thy lord / is of so heigh prudence
                                
                                  By cause of which / men shulde him reuerence
                                
                                  That of his worship / reweth he so lite
                                
                                  his ouer sloppe / nys nought worth a myte
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                                  As in effect / to him / so mot I go
                                
                                  It is al baudy / and tore also
                                
                                  Why is thy lord so sluttissh / I the preye
                                
                                  And is of power / bettre cloth to beye
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                                  If that his dede / acorded with thy speche
                                
                                  Telle me that / and I the biseche
                                
                                  ¶ Why quod this ȝeman / wher-to aske ȝe me
                                
                                  God helpe me so / for he shal neuere the
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                                  But I wol nat a-vowe / that I seye
                                
                                  And þerfore kepe it secree / I ȝow preye
                                
                                  he is to wys in feith / as I bileue
                                
                                  That þat is ouer doon / It wol nat preue [¶ Omne quod est nimium &c'] 
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                                  A-right / as Clerkes seyn / it is a vyce
                                
                                  werfore in that / I holde him lewed and nice [folio 203b] 
                                
                                  ffor whan a man hath / ouer gret a wit
                                
                                  fful ofte him happeth to mys-vsen it
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                                  So doth my lord / and that me greueth sore
                                
                                  God it amende / I can sey no more
                                
                                  ¶ Ther-of no fors / good ȝeman / quod oure hoost
                                
                                  Syn of the conynge of thy lord þou woost

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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 545
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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