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

                                
                                     [6-text p 175] 
                                  
                                  Thow hast I-nough in euery maner wyse
                                
                                  That to a thryfty houshold may suffyse
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  The lakkyth non aray ne non vitayle
                                
                                  Of syluyr in thyn purs schalt thow non fayle
                                
                                  And with that word his countour dore he schette
                                
                                  And doun he goth no lengere wolde he lette
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  And hastily a masse was theere seyd
                                
                                  And spedyly the tabelys weere I-leyd
                                
                                  And to the dyner faste hem spedde
                                
                                  And rychely this Monk the Chapman fedde
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  At aftyr dyner daun Iohn sobyrly
                                
                                  This Chapman tok apart & pryuyly
                                
                                  He seyde hym thus / Cosyn it standyth so
                                
                                  That wel I se to Bruggis wele Iego
                                  Line 1448 
                                
                                  God & seynt Augustyn speede ȝow & gyde [folio 316b] 
                                
                                  I preye ȝow cosyn wysely that ȝe ryde
                                
                                  Gouernyth ȝow also of ȝoure dyete
                                
                                  Attemprely & namely in this heete
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                                  By-twixe vs two nedyth ne straunge fare
                                
                                  ffare weel cosyn god schylde ȝow from care
                                
                                  And ȝif that ony by day or by nyght
                                
                                  If it lye in myn power & myn myght
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                                  That ȝe me wele [[later]]  comaunde in ony wyse
                                
                                  It schal be don ryght as ȝe wele deuyse
                                
                                  othyng Or that ȝe go If it may be
                                
                                  I wolde preye ȝow for to lene me
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                                  An hunderede frankys for a wyke or tweye
                                
                                  ffor serteyn bestes that I muste beye
                                
                                  To store with a place & that is oures
                                
                                  God helpe me so I wolde it were ȝourys
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                                  I schal not fayle surely of myn day
                                
                                  Nat for a thousent frankys a myle way
                                
                                  But lat this thyng been secre I ȝow prey
                                
                                  ffor ȝit to nygh[t] these bestis mot I beye
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                                  And fare now weel myn owene cosyn deere
                                
                                  Graunt mercy of ȝoure cost & of ȝoure goodely chere

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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 393
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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