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

                                
                                  Acorded nat / as by his facultee
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                                  To haue / with syke lazers aqueyntaunce
                                
                                  It is nat honeste / it may noght auaunce
                                
                                  ffor to deelen / with no swich poraille
                                
                                  But al with riche / and sellerys of vitaille
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                                  And ouer al / ther as profit sholde aryse
                                
                                  Curteys he was / and lowely of seruyse
                                
                                  Ther was no man / nowheer / so vertuous
                                
                                  He was the beste beggere / of his hous
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                                  And yaf a certeyn ferme / for the graunt
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                                  Noon of his bretheren / cam ther in his haunt
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                                  ffor thogh a wydwe / hadde noght a sho
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                                  So plesant was his In principio
                                
                                  Yet wolde he haue a ferthyng er he wente
                                
                                  His purchaas / was wel bettre than his rente
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                                  And rage he koude / as it weere right a whelpe
                                
                                  In louedayes / koude he muchel helpe
                                
                                  ffor there / he was nat lyk a Cloystrer
                                
                                  With a threedbare cope / as is a poure scoler
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                                  But he was lyk a maister / or a Pope
                                
                                  Of double worstede / was his semycope
                                
                                  And rounded as a belle / out of the presse
                                
                                  Somwhat he lypsed / for his wantownesse
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                                  To make his englyssh / sweete vp on his tonge
                                
                                  And in his harpyng whan þat he hadde songe
                                
                                  Hise eyen twynkled / in his heed aryght
                                
                                  As doon the sterres / in the frosty nyght
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                                  This worthy lymytour / was cleped Huberd
                                
                                  ¶ A Marchant was ther / with a forked berd [Marchaunt.] 
                                
                                  In Motlee / and hye on hors he sat [folio 5b] 
                                
                                  Vp on his heed / a fflaundryssh Beuere hat
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                                  His bootes clasped / faire and fetisly
                                
                                  Hise resons / he spak ful solempnely
                                
                                  Sownyng alway / thencrees of his wynnyng
                                
                                  He woolde / the see weere kept for any thyng
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                                  Bitwixen Myddelburgh / and Orewelle

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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 8
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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