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

                                
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                                  Seyde this yeman / and in wordes fewe
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                                  Hoost of his craft som what I wol yow shewe
                                
                                  ¶ I seye / my lord / kan swich subtilitee
                                
                                  But al his craft /. ye may nat wite for me
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                                  And som what helpe I yet to his wirkyng
                                
                                  That al this ground / on which we been ridyng
                                
                                  Til that we come / to Caunterbury toun
                                
                                  He koude al clene / turne it vp so doun
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                                  And paue it / al of siluer / and of gold
                                
                                  ¶ And whan this yeman / hadde this tale ytold
                                
                                  Vn-to oure hoost/ he seyde benedicitee
                                
                                  This thyng is wonder merueillous to me
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                                  Syn that thy lord / is of so heigh prudence
                                
                                  By cause of which / men sholde hym reuerence
                                
                                  That of his worshipe / rekketh he so lite
                                
                                  His ouerslope / nys nat worth a myte
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                                  As in effect to hym / so moot I go
                                
                                  It is al baudy / and to-tore also
                                
                                  Why is thy lord so sluttissh I the preye
                                
                                  And is of power/ bettre clooth to beye
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                                  If that his dede / accorde with thy speche
                                
                                  Telle me that . and that I thee biseche
                                
                                  ¶ Why quod this yeman? wherto axe ye me?
                                
                                  God help me so / for he shal neuere thee
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                                  But I wol nat auowe that I seye
                                
                                  And therfore / keepe it secree I yow preye
                                
                                  He is to wys / in feith / as I bileeue
                                
                                  That that is ouerdoon / it wol nat preeue [¶ Omne quod est nimium &cetera] 
                                
                                  Aright?/ as clerkes seyn / it is a vice
                                
                                  Wherfore in that I holde hym lewed and nyce
                                
                                  ffor whan a man / hath ouer greet a wit
                                
                                  fful oft hym happeth / to mysusen it
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                                  So dooth my lord / and that me greueth soore
                                
                                  God it amende / I kan sey yow namoore
                                
                                  ¶ Ther-of no fors / good yeman / quod oure hoost
                                
                                  Syn of the konnyng of thy lord thow woost

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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 546
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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