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

                                
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                                  ¶ This noble Marchant gentilly anon
                                
                                  Answerde and seyde / o cosyn myn daun Iohn
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                                  Now sikerly / this is a smal requeste
                                
                                  My gold is youres / whan þat it yow leste
                                
                                  And nat oonly my gold / but my chaffare
                                
                                  Tak what yow list god shilde þat ye spare
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                                  But o thyng is / ye knowe it wel ynow
                                
                                  Of Chapmen / that hir moneye is hir plow
                                
                                  We may creance / whil we han a name
                                
                                  But goldlees for to been / it is no game
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                                  Pay it agayn / whan it lyth in youre ese
                                
                                  After my myght ful fayn wol I yow plese
                                
                                  ¶ Thise hundred frankes / he fette forth anon
                                
                                  And priuely / he took hem to daun Iohn
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                                  No wight in al this world / wiste of this lone
                                
                                  Sauyng this Marchant and daun Iohn allone
                                
                                  They drynke / and speke / and rome a while & pleye
                                
                                  Til that daun Iohn / rideth to his Abbeye
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                                  ¶ The morwe cam / and forth this Marchant rydeth
                                
                                  To fflandres ward / his Prentys wel hym gydeth
                                
                                  Til he cam / in to Brugges murily
                                
                                  Now goth this Marchant faste and bisily
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                                  Aboute his nede / and byeth and creanceth
                                
                                  He neither / pleyeth at the dees / ne daunceth
                                
                                  But as a Marchant shortly for to telle
                                
                                  He let his lyf / and ther I lete hym dwelle
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                                  ¶ The sonday next / the Marchant was agon
                                
                                  To Seint denys / ycomen is daun Iohn
                                
                                  With crowne and berd / al fressh & newe shaue
                                
                                  In al the hous / ther nas so litel a knaue
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                                  Ne no wight ellis / þat he nas ful fayn
                                
                                  That my lord daun Iohn / was come agayn
                                
                                  And shortly / to the poynt right for to gon
                                
                                  This faire wyf accorded with daun Iohn
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                                  That for thise hundred frankes / he sholde al nyght
                                
                                  Haue hire in his armes / bolt vpright

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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 478
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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