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

                                
                                     [6-text p 524] 
                                  
                                  On to this philysophere how schal I do
                                
                                  I se namoore but that I am fordo
                                
                                  Myn erytage mote I nedis selle
                                
                                  And ben a beggere heere may I nat dwelle
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                                  And schamyn al myn kynrede in this place
                                
                                  But I of hym may getyn betere grace
                                
                                  But natheles I wele of hym assaye
                                
                                  At serteyn dayis ȝeer be ȝer to paye
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                                  And thanke hym of his greete curteysye
                                
                                  Myn trouthe wele I kepe I wele nat lye
                                
                                  With herte sor he goth vnto his cofere
                                
                                  And bryngith gold vn-to this philisophere
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                                  The valew of fyue hunderede pound I gesse
                                
                                  And hym be-sechith of hise gentilesse [[Camb. MS, leaves 298, 299, 300, and 301, are cut out.]] 
                                
                                  [To graunten hym dayes of þe payment [Sloane 1685, on leaf 157] 
                                
                                  And sayde Maystere .I. dare wele make a vaunte
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                                  I fayled neuere of my trouþe ȝet
                                
                                  ffor sykerly my dette shalle be quyt
                                
                                  Towardes ȝowe howe þat euere I fare
                                
                                  To gone a beggere in my kirtell bare
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                                  But wolde ȝe vouche saue vpon suerte
                                
                                  Two ȝere or þre for to respiten me
                                
                                  Then were I welle for elles mot I selle
                                
                                  Myne herytage þere nys no more to telle
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                                  Thys phylosophre soberly vnswared
                                
                                  And said þus when he þis worde herde
                                
                                  haue I not holde Couenaunte vnto þe
                                
                                  ȝee certes wele and truly quod he
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                                  haste þou not hade þi lady as þe lykest
                                
                                  No no quod he and sorowfull he siȝeþe
                                
                                  What was þe cause telle me yf þou can
                                
                                  Aurelius his tale a-none be-gan
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                                  And tolde hym alle as ȝe han hard by-fore
                                
                                  hit nedith not to rehersen hit no more
                                
                                  he sayd Arueragus of gentilnes [Sloane MS 1685 folio 157b] 
                                
                                  hade leuere dye in sorowe and dystresse

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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 354
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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