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

                                
                                  But aldirbest he song an offratory
                                
                                  ffor wel he wiste whan that song was sunge
                                
                                  He muste preche & wel affile hyse tunge
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                                  To wynne syluer as he wel couthe
                                
                                  Therfore he song the meryerely & loude
                                
                                  Now haue I told ȝow sothly in a clause
                                
                                  The estat tharay the noumbre & ek the cause
                                  Line 716 
                                
                                  Whi assemblid was this cumpayny
                                
                                  In southwerk at this ientil ostelry
                                
                                  That hyȝte the tabbard faste by þe belle
                                
                                  But now is tyme to ȝow for to telle
                                  Line 720 
                                
                                  How that we beryn vs that ilke nyȝt [folio 141b] 
                                
                                  Whan that we were in that ostelrye alyȝt
                                
                                  And aftyr wole I telle of oure viage
                                
                                  And al the remenaunt of oure [[u: later]]  pilgrymage
                                  Line 724 
                                
                                  But fyrst I prey ȝow of ȝoure curteysye
                                
                                  That ȝe narette not myn velanye
                                
                                  Thow that I pleynly speke in þis matere
                                
                                  To telle ȝow here wordys & here cher
                                  Line 728 
                                
                                  Ne thow I speke here wordis properly
                                
                                  ffor this ȝe knowyn als so wel as i [[i: later]] 
                                
                                  Who so schal telle a tale aftyr a man
                                
                                  He mote reherse as nyh as euere he can
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                                  Eueryche a word ȝif it be in his charge
                                
                                  Al speke he neuere so rewedely & large
                                
                                  Or elle he mote telle his tale ontrewe
                                
                                  Or feyne þyng or fyndyn wordis newe
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                                  He may not spare al-they he wer his broþer
                                
                                  He mote as wel seyn on word as a noþer
                                
                                  Crist spak hym self ful brode in holy wryt
                                
                                  And wel ȝe wote no velany is it
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                                  Ek plato seyth ho so can hym rede
                                
                                  The wordys [s: later]]  mote be chose to the dede
                                
                                  Also I preye ȝow to forȝeue it me
                                
                                  Al haue I not set folk in here degre
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                                  Here in this tale al as þey schulde stonde

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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 21
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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