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

                                
                                     [6-text p 376] 
                                  
                                  What I may gete in conseyl pryuyly [folio 230b] 
                                
                                  No manere concience haue I
                                
                                  Nere myn extorcioun I myȝte not lyue
                                
                                  Ne of sweche Iapis I wele not be schreue
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  Stomak ne concience knowe I non
                                
                                  I schrewe þese schryft faderys euerychon
                                
                                  Wel be we met by god & by seynt Iame
                                
                                  But leue broþer telle me þanne þyn name
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  Quod this somenour & in þis mene while
                                
                                  This ȝeman gan a lytyl for to smyle
                                
                                  Broþer quod he wilt þou þat I þe telle
                                
                                  I am a fend myn dwellyng is in helle
                                  Line 1448 
                                
                                  And here I ryde a-boute myn purchasyng
                                
                                  To wete where men wolde ȝeue me ony thyng
                                
                                  Myn purchas is þe effect of al myn rente
                                
                                  Loke how þou rydist for þe same entente
                                  Line 1452 
                                
                                  To wynne good þou rekist neuere how
                                
                                  Ryght so fare I for ryde wolde I now
                                
                                  Vnto þe worldis ende for a preye
                                
                                  A quod þe somenour benediste what seye
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  I wende ȝe were a ȝeman trewely
                                
                                  ȝe haue a manys schap as wel as I
                                
                                  H[a]ue ȝe a figure þanne determynat
                                
                                  In helle þere ȝe ben in ȝoure estat
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  Nay serteyn quod he þere haue we non
                                
                                  But whan vs lykyth þanne can we takyn on
                                
                                  Or ell make ȝow seme þat we been schape
                                
                                  Sumtyme lyk a man or lyk an ape
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  Or lyk an aungel can I ryde or go
                                
                                  It is no wondyr thyng thow it be so
                                
                                  A lousy iogelour can deseyue þe
                                
                                  And parde ȝit can I more craft þan he
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                                  Whi quod þe somenour ride ȝe þanne or gon
                                
                                  In sundery schap & not alwey in on
                                
                                  ffor we quod he wele vs swich formys make
                                
                                  As most able is oure prey for to take

                                  Line 1472

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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 209
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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