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

                                
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                                  ffor euery man saue thou / hath toold his tale
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                                  Vnbokele / and shewe vs what is in thy Male
                                
                                  ffor trewely / me thynketh by thy cheere
                                
                                  Thou sholdest knytte vp wel a greet mateere
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                                  Telle vs a fable anon / for Cokkes bones
                                
                                  ¶ This Person answerde / al atones
                                
                                  Thou getest fable noon / ytoold for me
                                
                                  ffor Paul / that writeth vn-to Thymothee [¶ Paulus ad Thi|motheum.] 
                                
                                  Repreueth hem / that weyueth soothfastnesse
                                
                                  And tellen fables / and swich wrecchednesse
                                
                                  Why sholde I sowen / draf out of my fest
                                
                                  Whan I may sowen whete / if þat me lest
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                                  ffor which I seye / if that yow list to heere
                                
                                  Moralitee / and vertuous mateere
                                
                                  And thanne / þat ye wol yeue me Audience
                                
                                  I wol fayn / at Cristes reuerence
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                                  Do yow plesaunce / leefful as I kan
                                
                                  But trusteth wel / I am a Southren man
                                
                                  I kan nat geeste / Rum / Ram / Ruf / by lettre
                                
                                  Ne god woot rym holde I but litel bettre
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                                  And therfore / if yow list I wol nat glose
                                
                                  I wol yow telle / a myrie tale in prose
                                
                                  To knytte vp al this feeste / and make an ende
                                
                                  And Ihesu for his grace / wit me sende
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                                  To shewe yow the wey / in this viage [folio 210b] 
                                
                                  Of thilke parfit/ glorious pilgrymage
                                
                                  That highte / Ierusalem celestial
                                
                                  And if ye vouche sauf / anon I shal
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                                  Bigynne vp-on my tale / for which I preye
                                
                                  Telle youre auys / I kan no bettre seye
                                
                                  ¶ But nathelees / this meditacion
                                
                                  I putte it ay / vnder correccion
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                                  Of Clerkes / for I am nat textueel
                                
                                  I take but sentence / trusteth weel
                                
                                  Therfore / I make a protestacion
                                
                                  That I wol stonde to correccion

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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 585
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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