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

                                
                                     [6-text p 176] 
                                  
                                  This noble Marchaunt gentely a-non
                                
                                  Answerede & seyde o cosyn myn daun Iohn
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                                  Now sekyrly this is a smal requeste
                                
                                  Myn gold is ȝourys whan that it ȝow leste
                                
                                  And not only myn gold but myn chafare
                                
                                  Taake what ȝow lyste god schilde that ȝe spare
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  But o thyng is ȝe knowe it wel I-now
                                
                                  Of chapmen that here monye is here plogh
                                
                                  We may encrece whil we han a name
                                
                                  But goldeles for to been it is a schame
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                                  Payeth it a-geyn whan it lyth in ȝoure ese
                                
                                  Aftyr myn myth ful fayn I wolde ȝow plese
                                
                                  These hunderede frankys he fette forth a-noon
                                
                                  And pryuyly he tok hem to daun Iohn
                                  Line 1484 
                                
                                  No whyt of al this world wyste of this lone
                                
                                  Sauynge this marchaunt & daun Iohn a-lone
                                
                                  They drynke & speke & rome a whyle & pleye [folio 317a] 
                                
                                  Tyl that daun Iohn rydyth to his abbey
                                  Line 1488 
                                
                                  The morwe cam & forth this marchaunt ridith
                                
                                  To fflaunderis ward his prentys weel hym gydith
                                
                                  Tyl he cam in-to Bruggis myriely
                                
                                  Now goth this Marchaunt faste & busyly
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  Aboute his neede & byeth & creaunceth
                                
                                  He neythir pleyeth at deis ne daunceth
                                
                                  But as a marchaunt schortely for to telle
                                
                                  He lat his lyf & there I lete hym dwelle
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  The soneday next the marchaunt was a-goon
                                
                                  To seynt Denys is come daun Iohn
                                
                                  With croune & berd al frosch & newe schaue
                                
                                  In al the hous ne was so lyte a knawe
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                                  Ne no whit ellys that he nas ful fayn
                                
                                  That myn lord daun Iohn was come a-gayn
                                
                                  And schortely to the poynt rygh[t] for to goon
                                
                                  This fayre wyf a-cordyt with daun Iohn
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                                  That for hise hunderede frankys he schulde al nyght
                                
                                  Haue hyre in hise armys bolt vp ryȝt

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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 394
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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