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

                                
                                  Wel couthe en eschaung schildis selle
                                
                                  This worthi man ful wel his wit be-sette
                                
                                  There wiste no man that he was in dette
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  So estatli was he of hese gouernaunce
                                
                                  With hese bargaynys & hese cheuysance
                                
                                  fforsothe he was a worthy man withal
                                
                                  But sothe to seyn I not how men hym cal
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  A clerk there was of oxsenforthe also [Clek of Oxenforthe] 
                                
                                  That vnto logyk hadde longe I-go
                                
                                  As lene was hese hors as is a rake
                                
                                  And he nas not / 1rygh fat / I vndyrtake1 [[1-1 later hand]] 
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  fful thredbare was hese ouereste courtepy [folio 135b] 
                                
                                  . . . . . [a line blank] 
                                
                                  ffor he hadde getyn hym ȝit no benefys
                                
                                  Ne was so wordely for to hauyn offys
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                                  ffor hym was lefere to haue at hese bedis hed
                                
                                  Twenty bokis I-clad in blak or red
                                
                                  Of Aristotle & his philoso-phie
                                
                                  þan robis ryche or fedele or gay sautrie
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  But al be þat he was a philisofre
                                
                                  þat hadde but lityl gold in cofre
                                
                                  But al þat he myȝte of hese frendis hente
                                
                                  On bokis & on lernynge he it spente
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                                  And besily gan for þe soulys preye
                                
                                  Of hem þat ȝaf hym wherwith to schole heye
                                
                                  Of stodie tok he most kep & most hede
                                
                                  Not a word spak he more þan was nede
                                  Line 304 
                                
                                  And þat was seyd in forme & reuerence
                                
                                  And schort & quik & ful of hey sentence
                                
                                  Sounynge in moral uertu was hese speche
                                
                                  And gladly wolde he lerne & gladli te-che
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  A seriaunt of the lawe bothe war & wys [Seregeaun] 
                                
                                  That oftyn hadde ben at þe paruys
                                
                                  He was also ryche of excellence
                                
                                  Discret he was & of gret reuerence
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  He semede swich hese wordis were so wyse

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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 9
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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