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

                                
                                     [6-text p 397] 
                                  
                                  That þou de-parte it so my derere broþer [folio 240a] 
                                
                                  That euery frere haue as meche as oþer
                                
                                  This schalt þou swere on þyn professioun
                                
                                  With-oute fraude or cauelacyoun
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                                  I swere it quod þe frere vp-on myn feith
                                
                                  And þerwithal his hand in his he leith
                                
                                  Lo here myn feyth in me schal ben no lak
                                
                                  Now put þanne þyn hand doun by myn bak
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                                  Seyde þis man & grope wel by-hynde
                                
                                  Be-nethe myn buttok þere schat þ[o]u fynde
                                
                                  A thyng þat I haue hid in pryuyte
                                
                                  A thoute þis frere þat schal gon with me
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                                  And doun his hand he lau[n]chith to þe clyfte
                                
                                  In hope for to fynde þere a ȝifte
                                
                                  And whan þis syke man felte þis frere
                                
                                  Aboute his tewel grope þere & here
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                                  A-myd his hand he let þe frere a fart
                                
                                  There nys no capil drawynge in a cart
                                
                                  That myȝt a lete a fart of swych a soun
                                
                                  The frere vp-stirte as doth a wood lyoun
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                                  A false cherl he seyde for godys bonys
                                
                                  This hast þou for dispit don for þe nonys
                                
                                  þow shalt a-beye þis fart ȝif þat I may
                                
                                  His meyne þat herdyn þis a-fray
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                                  Come lepynge in & cachede out þe frere
                                
                                  And forth he goth with a ful angery chere
                                
                                  And fette hese felawe þere as hadde his stor
                                
                                  Ho lokede as it were a wylde boor
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                                  He grynt with his teth so was he wroth
                                
                                  A sturdy pas doun to þe court he goth
                                
                                  Where as þere wonede a man of greet honour
                                
                                  To whom þat he was alwey confessour
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                                  This worthi man was lord of þat village
                                
                                  This frere cam as he were in a rage
                                
                                  Where as þis lord sit etynge at his bord
                                
                                  O-neþe myȝte þe frere speke a word

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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 230
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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