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

                                
                                     [6-text p 571] 
                                  
                                  Sire at oo word / ȝif þat ȝe lest it haue
                                
                                  Ȝe shull paie fourty pound / so god me saue
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                                  And ne were the frendshipe / þat ȝe dide er this
                                
                                  To me / ȝe shulde paie more ywis
                                
                                  This preest þe somme / of fourty pound anoon
                                
                                  Of nobles fette / and toke hem euerychoon
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                                  To þis Chanon / for this ilke receyt
                                
                                  Al his worching was fraude and deceyt
                                
                                  Sire preest he seide / I kepe to haue no loos
                                
                                  Of my craft / for I wolde it were kept cloos
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                                  And as ȝe loue me / kepeth it secree
                                
                                  ffor and men knewe / al my sotilte
                                
                                  By god men wolde haue so greet envie
                                
                                  To me by cause / of my philosophie [Lichfield MS folio 182b] 
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                                  I shulde be ded / ther were noon oþer weye
                                
                                  God forbede quod þe preest/ what seyȝe
                                
                                  Ȝit had I leuere spenden al the good
                                
                                  which þat I haue / and elles wexe I wood
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                                  Than þat ȝe shulde / falle in such meschief
                                
                                  ffor ȝoure good wil / sire haue ȝe right good preef
                                
                                  Quod the Chanon / and sire fare wel graunt mercy
                                
                                  He wente his way / and neuere þe preest him sey
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                                  After þat day / and whan þis preest sholde
                                
                                  Maken assay / at such tyme as he wolde
                                
                                  Of þis Receyt/ fare wel it wolde not be
                                
                                  Loo þus byiaped / and bygiled was he
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                                  ¶ Thus maketh he / his introduction
                                
                                  To bringe folk / to her destruction
                                
                                  Considereth sires / how þat in eche astate
                                
                                  Betwixe men and gold ther is debate
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                                  So ferforth / þat vnnethes is þer oon
                                
                                  This multiplying/ blendeth so many oon
                                
                                  That in good feith / I trowe þat it be
                                
                                  The cause grettest / of þis grete scarste
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                                  Thise philosophres / speken so mistily
                                
                                  In þis craft / þat men can not come þerby

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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 #738
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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