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

                                
                                  The fertheste in hese parich meche & lite
                                
                                  Vp on hese fet & in hese hond a staf
                                
                                  This noble ensaumple to hese schep he ȝaf
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                                  That fyrst he wrouȝte & aftyrward he tauȝte
                                
                                  Out of the gospel he to wordis cauȝte
                                
                                  And this figure he addede þerto
                                
                                  That ȝif gold rustede what schal yryn do
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                                  That ȝif a pryst be foul on whom we truste
                                
                                  No wondyr ist [[MS. altered]]  lewede men to ruste
                                
                                  And schame it is ȝif a pryst take kep
                                
                                  A schetyn schepperde & a clene schep
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                                  Wel outhe a prest ensaumple for to ȝeue [folio 138b] 
                                
                                  By hese clennesse how hese schep schulde leue
                                
                                  He sette not hese benefys to hyre
                                
                                  An let hese schep [[p in a later hand]]  acumbrit in the myre
                                
                                  And ran to lundene vn to seynt poulys
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                                  To seke hym a chauntriye for soulys
                                
                                  Or with a broþerhed to be with holde
                                
                                  But dwelte at hom & kepte wel hese folde
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                                  So that þe wolf ne made it not myscarie
                                
                                  He was a schepherde & not a mersenarye
                                
                                  And þow he holy were & vertyuous
                                
                                  He was not to synful men dispitous
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                                  Ne of hese speche daungerous ne digne
                                
                                  But in hese techynge 3discreet & benygne3 [[3_3 in a later hand]] 
                                
                                  To drawyn folk to heuyn be clennesse
                                
                                  Be good ensaumple this was hese besynesse
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                                  But ȝif it were ony persone obstynat
                                
                                  What [[t in a later hand]]  so he were of hey or low estat
                                
                                  Hym wolde he snybbyn scharpli for the nonys
                                
                                  A bettyr pryst I trowe neuere non is
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                                  He waytid aftyr no pompe ne reuerence
                                
                                  Ne makid [him [[in a later hand]] ] a spisede concience
                                
                                  But cristis lore & hese apostill twelue
                                
                                  He taughte but fyrst he folwede it hym selue
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                                  With hym þere was a plowman that was hese broþer [[A Plouman]

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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 15
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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