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

[6-text p 183]

                                  
                                    Iy comynge ys to weyke O . blysfull quene [[Sloane MS 1685.]] 
                                  
                                    fforto declare þi grete worthynesse
                                  
                                    þat I ne may þe wyȝt not sustene
                                  
                                    But as a chylde of twelfe moneth of age or lesse
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                                    þat can vnneth eny worde expresse
                                  
                                    ffor so fare I and þerfore I you pray
                                  
                                    Gydeth my songe þat I shalle to you say
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[THE TALE.]

                                    
                                      There was a Chylde in a grete cite
                                    
                                      Amonge crysten folke in þe Iewrye
                                    
                                      Susteyned by a lord of þat countre
                                    
                                      ffor foule vsurye and lucre of vlanye
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                                      þat felle to Cryste and to hys companye
                                    
                                      And þorouȝe þe streete men myȝt ryde & wende
                                    
                                      ffor hyt was fre and open at eyþere ende
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                                      Plyte scoole of crysten folke þere stoode
                                    
                                      Doun atte fyrthere ende in whiche þere were
                                    
                                      Chyldren an heepe comen of crysten bloode
                                    
                                      þat lerned in þat scole yere by ȝeere
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                                      Suche manere doctryne as men vsyd þere
                                    
                                      Thys ys to say to synge and to rede
                                    
                                      As smale Chyldren do in hir Chylde-heede
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                                      Amonge þese children was a wydowe sone
                                    
                                      A lytel Clerygion seuen yeere of age
                                    
                                      þat day by day to scole was hys wone
                                    
                                      And also eke where as he saw þe ymage [Sloane MS 1685 folio 199a] 
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                                      Of crystes modere hade he in vsage
                                    
                                      As hym was tauȝte to knele a-doun & say
                                    
                                      hys Aue marie as he goth by þe way

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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 401
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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