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 Line 389 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 Line 392 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 Line 400 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 Line 412 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 Line 416 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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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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