The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  What I may gete / in conseil priuely
                                
                                  No maner conscience / of that haue I
                                
                                  Nere myn extorcioun / I myghte nat lyuer
                                
                                  Nor of swiche Iapes / wol I nat be shryuen
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                                  Stomak / ne conscience / ne knowe I noon
                                
                                  I shrewe thise shrifte-fadres euerychoon
                                
                                  Wel be we met by god / and by seint Iame
                                
                                  But leeue brother / tel me thanne thy name
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                                  Quod this somonour / in this meene while
                                
                                  This yeman / gan a litel for to smyle
                                
                                  ¶ Brother quod he / wiltow / þat I thee telle
                                
                                  I am a feend / my dwellyng is in helle
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                                  And heere I ryde / aboute my purchasyng [folio 82b] 
                                
                                  To wite / wher men wolde me yeuen any thyng
                                
                                  My purchas / is theffect of al my rente
                                
                                  Looke / how thou rydest for the same entente
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                                  To wynne good / thou rekkest neuere how
                                
                                  Right so fare I / for ryde I wolde right now
                                
                                  Vn-to the worldes ende / for a preye
                                
                                  ¶ A quod this Somonour / benedicite what sey ye?
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                                  I wende / ye were a yeman trewely
                                
                                  Ye han a mannes shape / as wel as I
                                
                                  Han ye figure thanne determinat
                                
                                  In helle / ther ye been in youre estat?
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                                  ¶ Nay certeinly quod he / ther haue we noon
                                
                                  But whan vs liketh / we kan take vs oon
                                
                                  Or elles make yow seme / we been shape
                                
                                  Som tyme / lyk a man or lyk an Ape
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                                  Or lyk an Angel / kan I ryde or go
                                
                                  It is no wonder thyng thogh it be so
                                
                                  A lowsy Iogelour / kan deceyue thee
                                
                                  And pardee / yet kan I moore craft than he
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                                  ¶ Why quod the Somonour / ryde ye thanne or goon
                                
                                  In sondry shape / and nat alwey in oon?
                                
                                  ¶ ffor we quod he / wol vs swiche formes make
                                
                                  As moost able is / oure preyes for to take

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 209
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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