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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                                  Certes koth he / no thing noyeth me
                                
                                  To lene a man a noble / or .ij. or .iij.
                                  Line 1037 
                                
                                  Or what thyng/ were in my possession
                                
                                  Whan he so trewe is / of condicion
                                
                                  That in no wise / he breke woll his day
                                
                                  To soch a man / I can neuere sey nay
                                  Line 1041 
                                
                                  What koth this Chanon shold I be vntrewe
                                
                                  Nay that were thyng/ yfall/ all of newe
                                
                                  Treuth is a thyng/ that I woll euere kepe /
                                
                                  In-to that day / in which þat I shall krepe
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                                  In-to my grave / and elles god forbede
                                
                                  Byleueth this / as seker as your crede
                                
                                  God thank I. and in gode tyme be it seid
                                
                                  That there was neuer man yitte euyll appayed
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                                  ffor gold ne siluer / þat he to me lent
                                
                                  Ne neuere falshede / in myn hert I-ment
                                
                                  And sir koth he / now of my pryvytee
                                
                                  Sen ye so godely / han ben vn-to me
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                                  And kythed to me / so grete gentillesse/
                                
                                  Som-what / to quyte with your kyndenesse
                                
                                  I woll yow shewe / yf þat yow list lere
                                
                                  I woll yow teche pleynly the manere
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                                  How I can werken / in philisophie
                                
                                  Taketh gode hede / ye shull wele seen at yie
                                
                                  That I woll don a maistrie or I goo
                                
                                  ya koth þe prest / yee sir and woll ye soo
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                                  Marie there-of I pray yow hertly
                                
                                  at your commaundement sir truely
                                
                                  koth þe Chanon / and elles god forbede
                                
                                  Lo how þis þeef cowde his seruice bede
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                                  ffull soth it is / þat soch profred seruice
                                
                                  Stynketh / as witnessen þise old wise
                                
                                  And that full sone / I woll it vercifie [Eg. 2726 folio 231a] 
                                
                                  In this Chanon / rote of all trecherie
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                                  That euermore delite hath / and gladnesse
                                
                                  Soch fendly thoughtes / in his hert empresse

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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 558
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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