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

                                
                                     [6-text p 390] 
                                  
                                  We fare as seith thapostle / clooth and foode [¶ Victum & vesti|tum / hiis contenti sumus & cetera] 
                                
                                  Suffisen vs / though they be nat ful goode
                                
                                  The clennesse and the fastynge of vs freres
                                
                                  Maketh / þat crist accepteth oure preyeres
                                  Line 1884 
                                
                                  ¶ Lo Moyses / fourty dayes / and fourty nyght [¶ de orationibus & Ieiunijs .] 
                                
                                  ffasted / er þat the heighe god of myght
                                
                                  Spak with hym / in the mount of Synay
                                
                                  With empty wombe / fastynge many a day
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  Receyued he the lawe / that was writen
                                
                                  With goddes fynger / and Elye wel ye witen
                                
                                  In mount Oreb / er he hadde any speche
                                
                                  With hye god / that is oure lyues leche
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                  He fasted longe / and was in contemplaunce
                                
                                  ¶ Aaron / that hadde the temple in gouernaunce
                                
                                  And eek/ that othere preestes euerichon
                                
                                  In-to the temple / whan they sholde gon
                                  Line 1896 
                                
                                  To preye for the peple / and do seruyse
                                
                                  They nolden drynken / in no maner wyse
                                
                                  No drynke / which þat myghte hem dronke make
                                
                                  But there / in abstinence preye and wake
                                  Line 1900 
                                
                                  Lest that they deyden / taak heede what I seye
                                
                                  But they be sobre / that for the peple preye
                                
                                  War that /· I seye namoore / for it suffiseth
                                
                                  Oure lord Ihesu / as hooly writ deuyseth
                                  Line 1904 
                                
                                  Yaf vs ensample / of fastynge and preyeres
                                
                                  Therfore / we mendynantz / we sely freres
                                
                                  Been wedded / to pouerte and continence
                                
                                  To charite / humblesse / and abstinence
                                  Line 1908 
                                
                                  To persecucion / for rightwisnesse
                                
                                  To wepynge / Misericorde and clennesse
                                
                                  And therfore may ye se / þat oure preyeres
                                
                                  I speke of vs / we mendynantz we freres
                                  Line 1912 
                                
                                  Been to the hye god / moore acceptable
                                
                                  Than youres / with youre feestes at the table
                                
                                  ffro Paradys first if I shal nat lye [folio 87b] 
                                
                                  Was man out chaced / for his glotonye

                                  Line 1916

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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 223
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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