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

                                
                                  That on hese schene a mormal hadde he
                                
                                  ffor blankmanger þat made he at the beste
                                
                                  A schipman was þere wonynge fer be weste [a Shipman] 
                                
                                  ffor ouȝt I wot he was of dertemouthe
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                                  He rod up on a rouncy as he couthe
                                
                                  In a gounne of faldynge to the kne
                                
                                  A daggere hangynge on a lace hadde he
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                                  Aboute his nekke vndir his arm adoun
                                
                                  The hote somyr hadde mad his hew al broun
                                
                                  And serteynli he was a good felawe
                                
                                  fful manye a drauȝt of weyn hadde he I-drawe
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  ffrom burdeux ward whil that the chapman slep [folio 137a] 
                                
                                  Of nyce consience tok he none kep
                                
                                  Ȝif that he fauȝt & hadde the heyere hand
                                
                                  Be watyr he sente hem hom by euery land
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                                  But of hese craft to rekene wel hese tydis
                                
                                  Hese stremys & hese daungerys hym besyde
                                
                                  His herberwe & hese mone his [[s in a later hand]]  lodmyngage
                                
                                  There nas non swich from hul to cartage
                                  Line 404 
                                
                                  Hardy he was & wys to vndirtake
                                
                                  With manye a tempest hadde his berd ben schake
                                
                                  He knew alle þe hauenys as þey were
                                
                                  ffro gotlond to the kape of fenystere
                                  Line 408 
                                
                                  And euery Cryk in bretayne & in spayne
                                
                                  His barge clepid was de maudelayne
                                
                                  With vs þere was a doctour of phisik [Doctor de physik] 
                                
                                  In al þis world was ther non hym lik
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                                  To speke of phisik & of surgerye
                                
                                  ffor he was groundit in astronomye
                                
                                  Hepte hese pacient a ful gret del
                                
                                  In houres by his Magik naturel
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                                  Wel couthe he fortwnen the ascendent
                                
                                  Of hese ymagis / for hese pacient
                                
                                  He knew the cause of euery maladye
                                
                                  Were it hot or cold or moyst or dreye
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  And where þey engendere & of what humour

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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 12
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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