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

                                
                                     [6-text p 388] 
                                  
                                  In al þe cherche god so saue me
                                
                                  ȝa god amende þe fautis sere quod sche
                                
                                  Algatis wolcome ȝe by myn fey
                                
                                  Graunt merci dame þis haue I founde alwey
                                  Line 1812 
                                
                                  But of ȝoure grete goodnesse by ȝoure leue
                                
                                  I wolde preye ȝow þat ȝe nat ȝow greve
                                
                                  I wele with Thomas speke a lytyl throwe
                                
                                  These curatis been ful neglygent & slowe
                                  Line 1816 
                                
                                  To grope tenderely a concience
                                
                                  In schrifte in prechynge is myn diligence
                                
                                  And stodie in peteris wordis & in Poulis
                                
                                  I walke to fyche cristene menys soulys
                                  Line 1820 
                                
                                  To ȝilde Ihesu crist / hise propere rente
                                
                                  To sprede his word is set al myn entente
                                
                                  Now by ȝoure leue o deere maystyr quod sche [folio 236a] 
                                
                                  Schidith hym wel for seynte trynyte
                                  Line 1824 
                                
                                  He is as angery as a pissemyre
                                
                                  Thow that he haue al þat he can desyre
                                
                                  Thow I hym wrye a nyȝt & make hym warm
                                
                                  And ouer hym leye myn leg oþer myn arm
                                  Line 1828 
                                
                                  He gronyth lik oure bor lyth in oure sty
                                
                                  Oþer disport ryȝt non of hym haue I
                                
                                  I may not plese hym in no manere cas
                                
                                  O Thomas Ie vous dy Thomas Thomas
                                  Line 1832 
                                
                                  This makyth þe feend [[d: later]]  þis muste ben a-mendit
                                
                                  Ire is a thyng þat highe god defendit
                                
                                  And þerof wele I speke a word or two
                                
                                  Now maystir quod þe wyf er þan I go
                                  Line 1836 
                                
                                  What wele ȝe dyne I wele go þere aboute
                                
                                  Now dame quod he Ie vous dy sanz doute
                                
                                  Haue I nat of a capoun but þe lyuere
                                
                                  And of ȝoure softe bred but a scheuere
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  And aftyr þat a rostede pigis hed
                                
                                  But þat I nolde no beste for me were ded
                                
                                  Thanne hadde I with ȝow homely suffysaunce
                                
                                  I am a man of lytyl sustenaunce

                                  Line 1844

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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 221
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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