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

                                
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                                  And to the Chanon / he profred eft sone
                                
                                  Body and good / ȝe quod the Chanon sone
                                  Line 1289 
                                
                                  Thogh pouere I be / crafty þou shalt me fynde
                                
                                  I warne the / ȝit is ther more behynde [Lichfield MS folio 181b] 
                                
                                  Is ther ony coper / here-ynne seide he
                                
                                  Ȝe sire quod the preest / I trowe ther be
                                  Line 1293 
                                
                                  Ellis go bye som / and þat asswithe
                                
                                  Now sire go forth þi way / and hythe
                                
                                  He wente his way / and with þis coper he cam
                                
                                  And this chanon / in hand it nam
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                                  And of þat coper / weyed out but an ounce
                                
                                  Al to symple is my tunge / to pronounce
                                
                                  his monstre / and his witte . þe doublenesse
                                
                                  Of this chanon / rote of cursednesse
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                                  He semede freendly / to hem that knewe him noght
                                
                                  But he was feendly / bothe in werk and thoght
                                
                                  It werieth me to telle / of his falsnesse
                                
                                  And natheles / ȝit wole I it expresse
                                  Line 1305 
                                
                                  To that entente / þat men may be war þer by
                                
                                  And for noon other cause trewely
                                
                                  He putte this ounce of coper / in þe crosselet
                                
                                  And on the fire / asswithe he hath it set
                                  Line 1309 
                                
                                  And caste in pouder / and made þe preest to blowe
                                
                                  And in his worching / for to stoupe lowe
                                
                                  As he dide erst / and al was but a iape
                                
                                  Right as him liste / þe preest he made his ape
                                  Line 1313 
                                
                                  And afterward / in to the Ingot he it caste
                                
                                  And in the panne / putte it atte laste
                                
                                  Of water / and in he putte his owne hand
                                
                                  And in his sleue / as ȝe bifore hand
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                                  herde me telle / he had a siluer teyne
                                
                                  he slighly toke it out/ þis cursed heyne
                                
                                  Vnwetinge þis preest of his false craft
                                
                                  And in the pannes botme / he hath it laft
                                  Line 1321 
                                
                                  And in the water/ rombleth to and fro
                                
                                  And wonder priuely / took it vp also

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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 #736
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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