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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                                  Telle how he doth / I preye the hertly
                                
                                  Syn that he is / so crafty / and so sly
                                
                                  Where dwelle ȝe / if it to telle be
                                
                                  In the subarbes of a Toun / quod he
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                                  lurkynge in hernes / and in lanes blynde
                                
                                  Where as theise robbours / & theise theues by kynde
                                
                                  holden here pryue / ferful residence
                                
                                  As they that durn nat shewen / here presence
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                                  So faren we / if I shal seye the sothe
                                
                                  Ȝet quod oure hoost / lat me talke to the
                                
                                  Why artow so discoloured / of thy face
                                
                                  Peter quod he / god ȝeue it harde grace
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                                  I am so vsed / in the fir to blowe
                                
                                  That it hath chaunged / my colour I trowe
                                
                                  I nam nat wont / in no myrour to prye
                                
                                  But swynke sore / and lerne multiplie
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                                  we blundren euere / and pouren in the fyre
                                
                                  And for al that / we faille of oure desire
                                
                                  ffor euere we lakke / oure conclusion
                                
                                  To mechel folk / we don illusion
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                                  And borwe gold / be it a pound or two
                                
                                  Or ten or twelue / and manye sommes moo
                                
                                  And maken hem wenen / atte leest weye
                                
                                  That of a pound / we coude make tweye
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                                  Ȝet is it fals / and ay we han good hope
                                
                                  It for to doon / and after it we grope
                                
                                  But that science / is so fer vs biforn
                                
                                  We moun nat / al-though we hadden sworn
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                                  It ouer take / it slit a-wey so faste
                                
                                  It wol vs make beggers / atte laste
                                
                                  Whil this ȝeman was thus / in this talkyng
                                
                                  This Chanoun drow him nere / & herd al thyng
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                                  Which this ȝeman spak / for suspecion
                                
                                  Of mennes speche / euere hadde this Chanon
                                
                                  ffor Caton seith / that he that gilty is
                                
                                  Demeth al thyng / be spoke of him I-wys [folio 204a] 
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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 546
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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