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

                                
                                     [6-text p 380] 
                                  
                                  This somenour clepith at þe wedewis gate
                                
                                  Come out quod he þou olde verye crate
                                
                                  I trowe þou hast sum frere or prest with the
                                
                                  Ho clepith þere seyde þis widew benedicice
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                                  God saue ȝow syre what is ȝoure swete wille
                                
                                  I haue quod he of somounnys a bille
                                
                                  Vp peyne of cursynge loke þat þou be
                                
                                  To morwe by-fore þe Erchedekenys kne
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                                  To answere to þe court of serteyn thyngis
                                
                                  Now lord quod sche Ihesu kyng of kyngis
                                
                                  So wysely helpe me as I ne may
                                
                                  I haue be sek & þat ful manye a day
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                                  I may not goon quod sche so fer ne ryde [folio 232b] 
                                
                                  But I be ded so prykyth it in myn syde
                                
                                  May I not axe a libel syre somenour
                                
                                  And answere þere by myn procatour
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                                  To swich thyng as men wele oposyn me
                                
                                  ȝis quod this somenour pay a-non lat se
                                
                                  Twelue penys lat se & I wele þe aquyte
                                
                                  I schal no profyit haue þerby but lyte
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                                  Myn maystir hath the profit & not I
                                
                                  Come of & let me rydyn hastely
                                
                                  ȝeue me twelve penys I may no lengere lette
                                
                                  Twelue penys quod sche now lady seynte marye
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                                  So wysely helpe me out of care & synne
                                
                                  This wyde world þow þat I schulde wynne
                                
                                  Ne haue I not twelue penys with-inne myn holld
                                
                                  ȝe knowe wel þat I am pore & old
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                                  Kythe ȝoure almesse on me pore wreche
                                
                                  Nay þanne quod he þe fend me feche
                                
                                  ȝif I þe excuse th[o]w þow schuldist be spylt
                                
                                  Allas quod sche god wot I haue no gilt
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                                  Pay me quod he or be swete seynt anne
                                
                                  As I wele bere a-wey þyn newe panne
                                
                                  ffor dette whiche þou owist me of old
                                
                                  Whan þat þou haddist þyn husbonde coukewold

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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 213
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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