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

                                
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                                  And chaast was man / in Paradys certeyn
                                
                                  ¶ But herkne Thomas / what I shal seyn
                                
                                  I ne haue no text of it/ as I suppose
                                
                                  But I shal fynde it/ in a maner glose
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                                  That specially / oure sweete lord Ihesus
                                
                                  Spak this by freres / whan he seyde thus
                                
                                  ¶ Blessed be they / that pouere in spirit been
                                
                                  And so forth / al the gospel / may ye seen
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                                  Wher it be likker / oure professioun
                                
                                  Or hirs / that swymmen in possessioun
                                
                                  ffy on hire pompe / and hire glotonye
                                
                                  And for hir lewednesse / I hem diffye
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                                  ¶ Me thynketh / they been lyk Iovinyan
                                
                                  ffat as a whale / and walkynge as a swan
                                
                                  Al vinolent as Botel in the spence
                                
                                  Hir preyere / is of ful greet reuerence
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                                  Whan they for soules / seye the psalm of Dauit/
                                
                                  Lo / but they seye / cor meum eructauit/
                                
                                  Who folweth / cristes gospel / and his foore?
                                
                                  But we þat humble been / and chaast and poore
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                                  Werkeris of goddes word / not Auditours
                                
                                  Therfore / right as an hauk vp at a sours
                                
                                  Vp springeth in-to their / right so prayeres
                                
                                  Of charitable / and chaste bisy freres
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                                  Maken hir sours / to goddes eres two
                                
                                  Thomas Thomas / so moote I ryde or go
                                
                                  And by that lord / þat clepid is seint Yue
                                
                                  Nere thou oure brother / sholdestou nat thryue
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                                  In our Chapitre / praye we day and nyght
                                
                                  To crist/ þat he thee sende / heele and myght
                                
                                  Thy body / for to weelden hastily
                                
                                  ¶ God woot quod he / no thyng ther-of feele I
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                                  As help me crist as in a fewe yeres
                                
                                  I han spent / vp-on diuerse manere freres
                                
                                  fful many a pound / yet fare I neuer the bet
                                
                                  Certeyn my good / I haue almoost biset

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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 224
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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