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

                                
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                                  ffor she is big 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 matere
                                
                                  ¶ My lord the Monk quod he / be myrie of cheere
                                
                                  ffor / ye shul telle a tale trewely [folio 88b] 
                                
                                  Lo / Rouchestre / stant heer fasteby
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                                  Ride forth myn owene lord / brek nat oure game
                                
                                  But by my trouthe / I knowe nat youre name
                                
                                  Wher shal I calle yow / my lord Dann Iohn
                                
                                  Or dann Thomas / or ellis Dann Albon
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                                  Of what hous be ye / by youre fader kyn
                                
                                  I vow to god / thow hast a ful fair skyn
                                
                                  It is a gentil pasture / ther thow goost
                                
                                  Thow art nat lyk a penannt or a goost
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                                  Vp-on my feith / thow art som Officer
                                
                                  Som worthy Sexteyn / or som Celerer
                                
                                  ffor by my fader soule / as to my doom
                                
                                  Thow art a maister / whan thou art at hom
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                                  No poure Cloistrer / ne no novys
                                
                                  But a gouernour / wily and wys
                                
                                  And ther with al / of brawnes & of bones
                                
                                  A wel farynge persone / for the nones
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                                  I prey god / yeue hym confusion
                                
                                  That first thee broghte / vn-to Religion
                                
                                  Thow woldest han been a tredefoul aright
                                
                                  Haddestow / as greet a leue as thow hast myght
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                                  To perfourne / al thy lust in engendrure
                                
                                  Thow 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 thow / but euery myghty man
                                
                                  Thogh he were shore / ful hye vp on his pan
                                
                                  Sholde haue a wyf for al the world is lorn
                                
                                  Religion / hath take vp al the corn
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                                  Of tredyng and we borel men been shrympes
                                
                                  Of feble trees / ther comen wrecched ympes

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 198
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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