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

                                
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                                  Certes quod he / no þing anoyeth me
                                
                                  To lene a man a noble / or two or þre
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                                  Or what thing were / in my possession
                                
                                  whan he so trewe is / of condicion
                                
                                  That in no wise / he breke wol his day
                                
                                  To swich a man / I can neuere say nay
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                                  What quod þis Chanon / shulde I be vntrewe
                                
                                  Nay that were þing / fallen al of newe
                                
                                  Truthe is a thing / that I wol euere kepe
                                
                                  Vn to the day / in which þat I shal crepe
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                                  In to my graue / and ellis god forbede
                                
                                  Beleeueth þis / as siker as the crede
                                
                                  God thanke I / and in good tyme be it sayd
                                
                                  That ther was neuere man ȝit euel appayd
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                                  ffor gold ne siluer / that he to me lente
                                
                                  Ne neuere falshede / in myn herte I mente
                                
                                  And sire quod he / now of my priuite
                                
                                  Syn ȝe so goodly / haue ben to me
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                                  And kythed to me / so gret gentilnesse
                                
                                  Somwhat to quiten with / ȝoure kyndenesse
                                
                                  I wol ȝow shewe / and ȝif ȝow lust to lere [Lichfield MS folio 178b] 
                                
                                  I shal it shewe / to ȝow anon right here
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                                  How I can worchen / in philosophie
                                
                                  Taketh good heede / ȝe schul wel seen at yȝe
                                
                                  That I wol done / a maystrie or I goo
                                
                                  Ȝee quod the preest / ȝee sire and wol ȝe so
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                                  Marie ther of / I pray ȝow hertely
                                
                                  At ȝoure commaundement/ sire trewely
                                
                                  Quod the Chanon / and ellis god forbede
                                
                                  Loo how þis theef / couthe his seruice bede
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                                  fful soth it is / þat such profred seruice
                                
                                  Stinketh / as witnessen thise olde wise
                                
                                  And that ful sone / I wol it verifie
                                
                                  In this Chanon that is / roote of al treccherie
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                                  That eueremore / delite hath and gladnesse
                                
                                  Suche feendly thouȝtes / in his herte empresse

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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 #729
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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