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 571] 
                                  
                                  Sir at a worde / yf þat the list it haue
                                
                                  ye shull paye .xl. li. so god me save
                                  Line 1361 
                                
                                  And ner the frenshippe / þat ye did or this
                                
                                  To me ye shold paye more ywys
                                
                                  This prest / þe som of .xl. li. anoon
                                
                                  Of nobles fette / and toke hem euerychoon
                                  Line 1365 
                                
                                  To this Chanon / for this ylk resceyt/
                                
                                  All his werkyng/ nas but fraude and disceyt/
                                
                                  Sir preest he seid / I kepe haue no loos
                                
                                  Of my Craft/ for I wold/ it kept were cloos
                                  Line 1369 
                                
                                  And as ye loue me / kepeth it secree
                                
                                  ffor and men knewe / all my subteltee
                                
                                  By god þey wold haue so grete envye
                                
                                  To me / by cause of my philosophie
                                  Line 1373 
                                
                                  I shold be dede / there were noon other weye
                                
                                  God it forbede koth þe preest / what ye seye
                                
                                  yitte hade I leuer spenden / all þe gode
                                
                                  Which þat I haue / and elles were I wode /
                                  Line 1377 
                                
                                  Than that ye shold fall / in soch myschief
                                
                                  ffor your gode will / sir haue ye right gode preef
                                
                                  koth the Chanon / and fare well graunt mercy
                                
                                  He went his wey / and neuere þe preest hym sye
                                  Line 1381 
                                
                                  After þat day / and whan þat þis preest shoold.
                                
                                  Maken assay at soch tyme / as he wold.
                                
                                  Of this resceit fare wele / it wold nat be
                                
                                  Lo thus beiaped and begiled was he
                                  Line 1385 
                                
                                  Thus maketh he / his Introduccion
                                
                                  To bryng folk/ to her destruccion
                                
                                  Considereth sirs / how þat in ecch astate
                                
                                  Bitwene men and gold there is debate/
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                                  So ferforth/ so that vnneth is there noon [Eg. 2726 folio 235a] 
                                
                                  This multeplying blynt so many oon
                                
                                  That in gode feyth / I trowe þat it be
                                
                                  The cause grettest/ of soch skarstee
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                                  As men reccorde / many mo than I.
                                
                                  Philisophres speken so mystely

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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 567
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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