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

                                
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                                  Telle how he doth I preye the hertyly
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                                  Syn that he is so crafty & so sly
                                
                                  Wheere dwellyn ȝe / ȝif it to tellyn be
                                
                                  In the subarblis of a toun quod he
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                                  Lurkynge in hernys & in  [[first lonys]] lanys blynde
                                
                                  Where as these robbouris & these theuys by kynde
                                
                                  Holdyn here priue ferful residence
                                
                                  As they that dore nat schewe here presence
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                                  So fare we ȝif I schal seye the sothe
                                
                                  Now quod oure hoost ȝit lat me speke to the
                                
                                  Whi art thow so discolouryd in thyn face
                                
                                  Petir quod he god ȝeue it harde grace
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                                  I am so vsed in the fuir to blowe
                                
                                  That it hath chaunged myn colour I trowe
                                
                                  I am not wone in no myrour to prye [folio 382b] 
                                
                                  But swynke sore & lerne multeplye
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                                  We blundere euere & poure in the fuyr
                                
                                  And for al that we fayle of oure desyr
                                
                                  ffor euere we lakke oure conclusioun
                                
                                  To muche folk we doon illusyoun
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                                  And borwe gold be it a pound or two
                                
                                  Or ten or twelve or manye summys mo
                                
                                  And makyn hem to wenyn at the leste weye
                                
                                  That of a pound we coudyn make tweye
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                                  ȝit is it fals but ay we han good hope
                                
                                  It for to doon & aftyr it we grope
                                
                                  But that science is so fer vs be-foren
                                
                                  We mow not al-thogh we haddyn it sworen
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                                  It ouyrtake it slyt awey so faste
                                
                                  It wele vs make beggeris at the laste
                                
                                  // Whil this ȝeman was thus in his talkyng
                                
                                  This chanoun drow hym neer & herde alle thyng
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                                  Which this ȝeman spak . for suspecioun
                                
                                  Of menys speche / euere hadde this chanoun
                                
                                  for Catoun seyth he that gilty is [Concius esse sibi.] 
                                
                                  Demyth alle thynge is seyd of hym I-wis

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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 542
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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