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

                                
                                  And many a breem / and many a luce in Stuwe
                                
                                  Wo was his Cook / but if his Sauce weere [folio 6b] 
                                
                                  Poynaunt and sharpe / and redy al his geere
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                                  His table dormaunt in his halle alway
                                
                                  Stood redy couered / al the longe day
                                
                                  At sessions / ther was he / lord and sire
                                
                                  fful ofte tyme / he was knyght of the Shire
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                                  An Anlaas / and a Gipser / al of Sylk
                                
                                  Heeng at his girdel / whit as morne mylk
                                
                                  A Shirreue hadde he been / and Countour
                                
                                  Was nowheer / swich a worthy vauasour
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                                  ¶ An haberdasshere / and a Carpenter [Haberdasshere Carpenter. Webbe. Dyere. Tapycer.] 
                                
                                  A Webbe / a Dyere / and a Tapycer
                                
                                  And they weere clothed alle / in oo lyueree
                                
                                  Of a solempne / and a greet fraternytee
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                                  fful fressh and newe / hir geere apyked was
                                
                                  Hir knyues weere chaped / noght with bras
                                
                                  But al with siluer / wroght ful clene and wel
                                
                                  Hir girdles / and hir pouches / euerydel
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                                  Wel seemed eech of hem / a fair Burgeys
                                
                                  To sitten in a yeldehalle / on a deys
                                
                                  Euerych / for the wisdom / þat he kan
                                
                                  Was shaply / for to been an Alderman
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                                  ffor catel / hadde they ynogh / and rente
                                
                                  And eek hir wyues / wolde it wel assente
                                
                                  And ellis certeyn / they weere to blame
                                
                                  It is ful fair / to been yclepyd madame
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                                  And goon to vigilies / al bifore
                                
                                  And haue a Mantel / realliche ybore
                                
                                  ¶ A Cook they hadde with hem / for the nones [Cook/.] 
                                
                                  To boille the chiknes / with the Marybones
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                                  And poudre marchaunt. tart and / Galyngale
                                
                                  Wel koude he knowe / a draghte of london ale
                                
                                  He koude rooste / and seethe / and broille / & frye
                                
                                  Maken Mortreux / and wel bake a pye
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                                  But greet harm was it as it thoughte me

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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 11
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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