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

                                
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                                  Vn to this Philosophre / how shal I do
                                
                                  I se namoore / but that I am for-do
                                
                                  Myn heritage / moot I nedes selle
                                
                                  And been a beggere / here may I nat dwelle
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                                  And shamen al my kynrede / in this place
                                
                                  But I of hym / may gete bettre grace
                                
                                  But nathelees / I wol of hym assaye
                                
                                  At certeyn dayes / yeer by yeer to paye
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                                  [And [Rats.]  [folio 164b] ] thonke hym / of his grete curteisye
                                
                                  [ [Rats.] M]y trouthe wol I kepe / I nel nat lye
                                
                                  ¶ With herte soor / he gooth vn to his cofre
                                
                                  And broghte gold / vn to this Philosophre
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                                  The value / of fyue hundred pound I gesse
                                
                                  And hym bisecheth / of his gentillesse
                                
                                  To graunten hym dayes / of the remenant
                                
                                  And seyde Maister / I dar wel make auant
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                                  I fayled neuere / of my trouthe as yit
                                
                                  ffor sikerly / my dette shal be quyt
                                
                                  Towardes yow / how euere þat I fare
                                
                                  To goon abegged / in my kirtel bare
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                                  But wolde ye vouche sauf vp on seuretee
                                
                                  Two yeer or thre / for to respiten me
                                
                                  Thanne were I wel / for ellis moot I selle
                                
                                  Myn heritage / ther is namoore to telle
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                                  ¶ This Philosophre / sobrely answerde
                                
                                  And seyde thus / whan he thise wordes herde
                                
                                  Haue I nat holden couenant vn to thee
                                
                                  ¶ Yis certes / wel and trewely quod he
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                                  ¶ Hastow nat had / thy lady as thee liketh
                                
                                  ¶ No no quod he / and sorwefully he siketh
                                
                                  ¶ What was the cause / tel me if thow kan
                                
                                  ¶ Aurelius / his tale anon bigan
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                                  And tolde hym al / as ye han herd bifore
                                
                                  It nedeth nat to yow reherce it moore
                                
                                  ¶ He seyde / Arueragus / of gentillesse
                                
                                  Hadde leuere dye / in sorwe and in distresse

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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 376
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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