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

                                
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                                  ffor she is / byg in Armes by my feith
                                
                                  That shal he fynde / þat hire mysdooth or seith
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                                  But lat vs passe awey / fro this mateere
                                
                                  ¶ My lord the Monk quod he / be myrie of cheere
                                
                                  ffor ye shul telle a tale trewely
                                
                                  Loo Rouchestre / stant heer faste by
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                                  Ryde forth myn owene lord / brek nat oure game
                                
                                  But by my trouthe / I knowe nat youre name
                                
                                  Wher shal I calle yow / my lord daun Iohn
                                
                                  Or daun Thomas / or elles daun Albon
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                                  Of what hous be ye / by youre fader kyn
                                
                                  I vowe to god / thou hast a ful fair skyn
                                
                                  It is a gentil pasture / ther thow goost [folio 172b] 
                                
                                  Thou art nat lyk a penant or a goost
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                                  Vpon my feith / thou art som Officer
                                
                                  Som worthy sexteyn / or som Celerer
                                
                                  ffor by my fader soule / as to my doom
                                
                                  Thou art a maister / whan thou art at hoom
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                                  No poure cloystrer/ ne no Novys
                                
                                  But a gouernour / wily and wys
                                
                                  And therwith-al / of brawnes and of bones
                                
                                  A wel farynge persone / for the nones
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                                  I pray to god / yeue hym confusioun
                                
                                  That first thee broghte / vn-to Religioun
                                
                                  Thou woldest han been / a tredefowel aright
                                
                                  Haddestow / as greet a leeue / as thou hast myght
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                                  To parfourne al thy lust/ in engendrure
                                
                                  Thou haddest bigeten / ful many a creature
                                
                                  Allas / why werestow / so wyd a Cope
                                
                                  God yeue me sorwe / but and I were a pope
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                                  Nat oonly thou / but euery myghty man
                                
                                  Though he were shorn / ful hye vpon his pan
                                
                                  Sholde haue a wyf / for al the world is lorn
                                
                                  Religioun / hath take vp al the corn
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                                  Of tredyng. and we borel men been shrympes
                                
                                  Of fieble trees / ther comen wrecched ympes

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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 477
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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