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

                                
                                     [6-text p 177] 
                                  
                                  And this acord parforned was in deede
                                
                                  In myrthe al nyght a busy lyf they leede
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                                  Til it was day that daun Iohn wente his way
                                
                                  And bad the meyne fare wel haue good day
                                
                                  ffor non of hem ne no wyght in the toun
                                
                                  Hath of daun Iohn rygh non suspecyoun
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                                  And forth he rydyth hom to his abbey
                                
                                  Or wheere hym luste no more of hym I seye
                                
                                  ¶ This Marchaunt whan that endit was the fayre
                                
                                  To seynt Denys he gan for to rapayre
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                                  And with his wyf he makyth feste & cheere
                                
                                  And tellyth hyre that chaffare is so deere
                                
                                  That nedys muste he make a cheyuyssance
                                
                                  ffor he was boundyn in a reconyssance
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                                  To payen twenty thousent sheeld a-non
                                
                                  ffor with this marchaunt is to parys goo
                                
                                  To borwe of certeyn frendys that he hadde
                                
                                  A certeyn frankys & some with hym he ladde
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                                  ¶ And whan that he was come in to the toun [folio 317b] 
                                
                                  ffor gret chieretee & greet facoun
                                
                                  Vn-too daun Iohn he fyrst goth hym to pleye
                                
                                  Nat for to axe or borwe of hym monye
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                                  But for to wete & se of his weel fare
                                
                                  And for to tellyn hym of hys chaffare
                                
                                  As frendys doon whan they been met in feere
                                
                                  Daun Iohn hym makyth feste & myry chieere
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                                  And hym tolde a-geyn ful specially
                                
                                  How he hadde weel I-bouȝt & graciously
                                
                                  Thankede be god al hol his marchaundyse
                                
                                  Saue that he wolde in alle wyse
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                                  Makyn a cheuyciaunce as for hise beste
                                
                                  And thanne he schulde ben In Ioye & reste
                                
                                  ¶ Daun Iohn answerede sertis I am fayn
                                
                                  That ȝe in heele are comyn hom a-gayn
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                                  And ȝif that I were ryche as I haue blys
                                
                                  Of twenty thousant sheld schulde ȝe nat mys

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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 395
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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