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

                                
                                     [6-text p 392] 
                                  
                                  ffarwel my gold / for it is al ago
                                
                                  ¶ The frere answerde / o Thomas dostow so?
                                
                                  What nedeth yow / diuerse freres seche
                                
                                  What nedeth hym / þat hath a parfit leche
                                  Line 1956 
                                
                                  To sechen / othere leches in the toun?
                                
                                  Youre inconstance / is youre confusioun
                                
                                  Holde ye thanne me / or elles oure Couent
                                
                                  To praye for yow / been insufficient?
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  Thomas that Iape / nys nat worth a myte
                                
                                  Youre maladye / is for we han to lyte
                                
                                  A yif that Couent/ half a quarter otes [folio 88a] 
                                
                                  A yif that Couent/ .xxiiij. grotes
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  A yif that frere a peny / and lat hym go
                                
                                  Nay nay Thomas / it may no thyng be so
                                
                                  What is a ferthyng worth / parted in twelue
                                
                                  Lo ech thyng that is oned / in it selue [Omnis virtus vnita / forcior est seipsa dispersa] 
                                
                                  Is moore strong than whan it is toscatered
                                
                                  Thomas / of me / thou shalt nat been yflatered
                                
                                  Thou woldest han oure labour al for noght
                                
                                  The hye god / that al this world hath wroght
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  Seith that the werkman / worthy is his hyre [¶ Dignus est operarius mercede & cetera] 
                                
                                  Thomas / noght of youre tresor I desire
                                
                                  As for my self but that al oure Couent
                                
                                  To preye for yow / is ay so diligent
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  And for to buylden / cristes owene chirche
                                
                                  Thomas / if ye wol lernen for to wirche
                                
                                  Of buyldynge vp of chirches / may ye fynde
                                
                                  If it be good / in Thomas lyf of Inde
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  Ye lye heere / ful of Anger of Ire
                                
                                  With which / the deuel set youre herte afyre
                                
                                  And chiden heere / the sely Innocent
                                
                                  Youre wyf/ that is so meke and pacient
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  And therfore Thomas / trowe me if thee leste
                                
                                  Ne stryue nat with thy wyf/ as for thy beste
                                
                                  And ber this word awey / now by thy feith
                                
                                  Touchynge this thyng lo what the wise seith

                                  Line 1988

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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 225
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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