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

[6-text p 397] That thow departe it so / my deere brother That euery frere / haue as muche as oother This shaltow swere / on thy profession With-outen fraude / or cauelacion 2136 ¶ I swere it quod this frere / vp-on my feith And ther with al / his hand in his he leith Lo here my feith / in me / shal be no lak ¶ Now thanne put thyn hand / down by my bak 2140 Seyde this man / and grope wel bihynde Bynethe my buttok there shaltow fynde A thyng that I haue hyd in pryuetee ¶ A thoghte this frere / that shal go with me 2144 And down his hand / he launcheth to the clifte [folio 85a] In hope / for to fynde there a yifte And whan this sike man / felte this frere Aboute his tuwel / grope there and heere 2148 Amydde his hand / he leet the frere a fart Ther is no capul / drawyng in a Cart That myghte han late a fart of swich a sown ¶ The frere vp stirte / as dooth a wood leoun 2152 A false cherl quod he / for goddes bones This hastow for despit doon for the nones Thow shalt abye this fart if þat I may His meynee / which that herden this affray 2156 Cam lepyng In / and chaced out the frere And forth he gooth / with a ful angry cheere And fette his felawe / ther as lay his stoor He looked / as he were a wilde boor 2160 He grynt with his teeth / so was he wrooth A sturdy paas / doun to the court he gooth Wher as ther woned / a man of greet honour To whom / that he was alwey confessour 2164 This worthy man / was lord of that village This frere cam / as he were in a rage Where as this lord / sat etyng at his boord Vnnethe / myghte the frere speke a woord 2168
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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