And many a Breem / and many a luce in Stuwe
Wo was his Cook / but if his sauce were
Poynaunt / and sharpe / and redy al his geere
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His table dormant in his halle alway
Stood redy couered / al the longe day
At sessions ther was he lord and sire
fful ofte tyme / he was knyght of the shire
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An Anlaas / and a gipser al of silk
Heeng at his girdel / whit as morne Milk /
A shirreue hadde he been and Countour
Was nowher / such a worthy Vauasour
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AN haberdasshere and a Carpenter [¶ Haberdasshere] [¶ Carpenter]
A Webbe / a Dyere / and a Tapycer [¶ Webbe] [¶ Dyere]
And they were clothed alle in o lyueree [¶ Tapicer]
Of a solempne / and a greet fraternitee
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fful fressh and newe / hir geere apiked was
Hir knyues / were chaped noght with bras
But al with siluer / wroght ful clene and weel
Hire girdles and hir pouches euerydeel
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Wel semed ech of hem / a fair burgeys
To sitten in a yeldehalle / on a deys
Euerich / for the wisdom þat he kan
Was shaply / for to been an Alderman
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ffor catel hadde they ynogh and rente
And eek hir wyues wolde it wel assente
And elles certeyn / were they to blame
It is ful fair / to been ycleped ma Dame
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And goon to vigilies / al bifore
And haue a Mantel roialliche ybore
A Cook they hadde with hem for the nones [¶ Cook.]
To boille the chiknes with the Marybones
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And poudre Marchant tart and galyngale
Wel koude he knowe / a draughte of London ale
He koude rooste and sethe / and boille and frye
Maken Mortreux / and wel bake a pye
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But greet harm was it / as it thoughte me [folio 9a]
