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 569] 
                                  
                                  And to þe Chanon / he profred eftsone
                                
                                  Body and gode / ya koth þe Chanon sone
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                                  Though I pore be / crafty þou shalt me fynd
                                
                                  I warne the yitte / is there more behynd
                                
                                  Is there ony Coper / here-in seid he
                                
                                  Ye koth the preest/ I trowe well there be
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                                  Elles go by vs som / and þat as swythe
                                
                                  Now sir go þy wey / and hie the blythe
                                
                                  He went his way / and with the coper cam
                                
                                  And þis Chanon it / in his handes nam
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                                  And of that Coper weyed out but an ounce
                                
                                  all to symple is my tung/ to pronounce
                                
                                  As mynystre of my wit / þe doublenesse
                                
                                  Of this Chanon / rote of all cursednesse
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                                  He semed frendly to hem / þat knewe hym nought/
                                
                                  But he was fendly / both in hert and thought/
                                
                                  It werieth me / to tell of his falnesse
                                
                                  And natheles yitte woll I it expresse
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                                  To thentent/ that men mow be ware there-by
                                
                                  And for noon other cause truely
                                
                                  He put the ounce of Coper in þe Crosselet/
                                
                                  And on the fire / as swythe he hath it set/
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                                  And cast in poudre / and made the preest to blowe/ [Eg. 2726 folio 234a] 
                                
                                  And in his werkyng/ for he stowped lowe
                                
                                  As he did ere / and all nas but a Iape
                                
                                  Right as hym list/ the preest/ he made his ape
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                                  And afterward in þe Ingotte / he it cast/
                                
                                  And in the pan / put it at the last/
                                
                                  With the water / and in he put his owen hand.
                                
                                  And in his sleue / as ye byforehand
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                                  Herd me tell / hade a siluer teyne
                                
                                  He slyely toke it out/ þis cursed hyne
                                
                                  vnwetyng this prest/ of his fals craft/
                                
                                  And in þe pannes botom / he hath it laft/
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                                  And in the water / rombled to and froo
                                
                                  And wondir priuely toke vp also

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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 565
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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