The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  ȝit may þe hye god & so hope I
                                
                                  Graunte me grace to leue verteuosly
                                
                                  Thanne am I gentyl whan þat I be-gynne
                                
                                  To leuyn verteuously & leuyn synne
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                                  And þere as ȝe of pouert me repreue
                                
                                  The hye god of whom ȝe me repreue
                                
                                  In wilful pouert ches to lede his lyf
                                
                                  And certys euery man mayde or wyf
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                                  May vndyrstondyn Ihesus [[MS Ihc]]  heuene kyng
                                
                                  Ne wolde not chese an vicious leuyng
                                
                                  Glad pouert is an oneste thyng certeyn
                                
                                  This wele Senek & oþere clerkys seyn
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                                  Ho so hym halt payed of his pouerte
                                
                                  I holde hym ryche hadde he but a sherte
                                
                                  He þat coueytyth is a pore wight
                                
                                  ffor he wolde han þat is not in his myȝt
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                                  But he þat nought haht ne coueythit to haue
                                
                                  Is [[s later]]  riche al-thow men holde hym but a knaue
                                
                                  Veray pouert it syngith properly
                                
                                  Iuenal seyth of pouerte meryly
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                                  The poure man whan he goth by the weye
                                
                                  By-fore þe thewis he may synge & pleye
                                
                                  Pouerte is hateful good as I gesse
                                
                                  A ful gret bryngere out of besinesse
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                                  A gret amendere ek of sapience
                                
                                  To hem þat takyth it in pacience
                                
                                  Pouerte is this al-thow it seme alenge [folio 227a] 
                                
                                  Possessioun þat no man wele calenge
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                                  Pouerte ful ofte whan a man is lowe
                                
                                  Makyth his god & hym self to knowe
                                
                                  Pouerte a spectakele is as thynkyth me
                                
                                  Thorw whech he may his veray frend I-se
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                                  And þerfore syre syn þat I ȝow not greue
                                
                                  Of myn pouerte no more ȝe me repreue
                                
                                  Now syre of olde ȝe repreue me
                                
                                  And sertis syde thogh non autoryte

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 201
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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