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

                                
                                     [6-text p 170] 
                                  
                                  And ek an offycer out for to ryde
                                
                                  To seen here granges & here bernys wyde
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                                  And vn-to seynt Denys he comyth a-noon
                                
                                  Who was so wolcome as myn lord daun Iohn
                                
                                  Oure deere cosyn ful of curteysye
                                
                                  With hym he brouȝte a Iubbe of Maluesye
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                                  And ek a nothir ful of fyn vernage
                                
                                  And volatyl as was his vsage
                                
                                  And thus I lete hem drynke & ete & pleye
                                
                                  This Marchaunt & this Monk a day or tweye
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                                  The thredde day this Marchaunt vp a-ryseth
                                
                                  And on hise nedis sadly hym auyseth
                                
                                  And vp in-to his countour house goth he
                                
                                  To rekene with hym self weel may be
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                                  Of thilke ȝeer how that it with hym stod
                                
                                  And how that he dispendit hadde his good
                                
                                  And ȝif that he encresede were er non
                                
                                  Hise bokis & hise baggis manyon
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                                  He leyth be-forn hym on his county[n]g bord
                                
                                  fful ryche was his tresor & his hord
                                
                                  ffor which ful faste his countour dore he schette
                                
                                  And ek he nolde that no man schulde hym lette
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                                  Of hise acountis for the mene tyme
                                
                                  And thus he syt [[altered]]  tyl it was passid pryme
                                
                                  ¶ Daun Iohn was rysyn in the morwe also
                                
                                  And in the gardyn walkith to & fro
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                                  And hath hise thyngis seyd ful curteysly
                                
                                  This goode wyf cam walkynge pryuyly
                                
                                  In-to the gardyn there as he walkyth softe
                                
                                  And hym saluyth as he hath doon ofte
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                                  A maydechild cam in hyre cumpaynye
                                
                                  Whiche as hyre lyste sche may gouerne & gye
                                
                                  ffor ȝit vndyr the ȝerde was the mayde
                                
                                  ¶ O deere Cosyn myn daun Iohn sche sayde
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                                  What aylyth ȝow so rathe for to ryse
                                
                                  Nece quod he it oghte I-nogh suffyse

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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 388
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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