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

                                
                                     [6-text p 169] 
                                  
                                  A-queynted was so with þat gode man [[Sloane MS 1685]] 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                  Line 1220 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                   [no gap in the Sloane MS, in Harl. 1758, or Reg. 18 C ii.]] 
                                
                                  And eke þis Monke of whiche I be-gan
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                                  Were bothe two borne in oo vilage
                                
                                  þe Monke hym cleymed as for cosynage
                                
                                  And he a-yeyne saith not onys nay
                                
                                  But was as glade as any foule of day
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                                  ffor in his hert it was a grete plesaunce
                                
                                  Thus bene þe knyt with eterne aliaunce
                                
                                  Of Bretherheed/ whiles þat her lyf may dure
                                
                                  And ilke of hem gan oþere assure
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                                  ffre was dan Iohn and namly of dispense
                                
                                  As in þat hous and fulle of diligence
                                
                                  To do plesaunce and also grete costage
                                
                                  he nouȝt for-yate to ȝeue þe laste page
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                                  In alle þat hous but aftyr hir degre
                                
                                  he ȝave þe lord / and siþens his meyne
                                
                                  whan þat he came some manere honest thynge
                                
                                  ffor whiche þei were as glade for hys comynge
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                                  As foule ys fayne whan þe sonne vp rysethe
                                
                                  Nomore here-of as nowe for þis sufficethe
                                
                                  But so befelle þis Marchaunt on a day
                                
                                  Schope hym to make redy hys array
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                                  Toward þe town of Bruggeys for to fare
                                
                                  To byen þere a porcion of ware
                                
                                  ffor whiche he hathe to parys / sent anone
                                
                                  A messangere and prayed hathe Dan Iohn
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                                  þat he shulde come to seynt Denys to pleye
                                
                                  with hym and with his wyf a day or tweye
                                
                                  Or he to bruggeys went in alle wyse
                                
                                  This noble Monke of whiche I you deuyse] [[Sloane extract ends]] 
                                
                                  Hath of his abbot as hym leste lycence [Camb. MS]  [folio 314a] 
                                
                                  By-cause he was a man of hygh prudence

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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 387
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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