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 572] 
                                  
                                  In this Craft/ þat men han now a dayes
                                
                                  They mow wele chittren / as þat doon Iayes
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                                  And in her termes sette her lust and peyne
                                
                                  But to her purpoos / shull þey neuere atteyne
                                
                                  A man may lightly lerne / yf he haue ought/
                                
                                  To multiplye / and bryng his gode to nought/
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                                  Lo soch a lucre it is / in this lusty game
                                
                                  A mans merth / it woll turne vn-to grame
                                
                                  And empten also / grete and hevy purses
                                
                                  And maken folk / for to purchacen curses
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                                  Of hem that han her gode / þere-to ylent/
                                
                                  ffy for shame / þey þat han be brent
                                
                                  Allas can þey nat flee / þe fires hete
                                
                                  Ye þat it vse / I rede ye it lete
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                                  lest ye lese all/ for bet þan neuere / is late
                                
                                  Neuer to thryve / were to long a date
                                
                                  Though ye proll ay / ye shull it neuere fynde
                                
                                  Ye ben as bold as is bayard the blynde
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                                  That blundreth forth / and perell casteth noon
                                
                                  He is as bold to renne ayeinst a stoon
                                
                                  As for to go beside / in the hie weye
                                
                                  So faren ye that multiplie I seye
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                                  Yf þat your yien kon nat seen aright/
                                
                                  loke þat your mynd / lak nat his sight/
                                
                                  ffor though ye loke neuere so brode and stare
                                
                                  Ye shull no thyng wyn / on þat chaffare
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                                  But wasten all þat ye mow rappe and renne
                                
                                  withdrawe the fyre / lest it to fast brenne
                                
                                  Medleth no more with þat arte I mene
                                
                                  ffor yf ye do / your thryft is goon full clene
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                                  And right as swythe / I woll yow tellen here
                                
                                  What that the Philisophres seyn in þis matere
                                
                                  Lo thus seith Arnold of the newe toun
                                
                                  As his Rosarie / maketh mension
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                                  He seyth right thus without ony lye [Eg. 2726 folio 235b] 
                                
                                  There may no man Mercurie mortefye

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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 568
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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