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

                                
                                     [6-text p 562] 
                                  
                                  Certis quod he no thyng a-noyeth me
                                
                                  To lene a man a nobele or to or thre
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                                  Or what thyng were in myn possessioun
                                
                                  Whan he so trewe is of condicioun
                                
                                  That in nowise he breke wele his day
                                
                                  To swich a man I can neuere seyn nay
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                                  // What quod this chanoun schulde I be ontrewe
                                
                                  Nay that were a thyng I-falle were al of newe
                                
                                  Trouthe is a thyng that I wele euere kepe
                                
                                  Vn-to that day In whiche that I schal crepe
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                                  [In to my graue or elles god for-bede
                                
                                  Beleueth þis as sykere as ys youre crede [Sloane MS 1685 folio 172a] ]
                                
                                  God thanke I & in good tyme be it seyd
                                
                                  That there was neuere man ȝit euele apayed
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                                  ffor gold ne siluyr that he to me sente
                                
                                  Ne neuere falshed in myn herte I mente
                                
                                  And sere quod he now of myn pryuyte
                                
                                  Syn ȝe godly han ben on to me
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                                  And kythed to me so gret gentillesse
                                
                                  Sumwhat to kythe with ȝoure kyndenesse
                                
                                  I wele ȝow schewe & ȝif ȝow lyste to lere
                                
                                  I wele ȝow teche pleynly the manere
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                                  How I can werke in philosophie
                                
                                  Takith good hed ȝe schul wel sen at Iȝe
                                
                                  That I wele don a maystrie er I go
                                
                                  // Ȝe quod the prest / ȝe sere & wele ȝe so
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                                  Marie therof I preye ȝow hertely
                                
                                  At ȝoure comaundement trewely
                                
                                  Qu[o]d the chanoun & ellis god for-beede [folio 388a] 
                                
                                  Lo how this thef coude his seruyse bede
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                                  fful soth it is that swich profered seruyse
                                
                                  Stynkyth as wytnesseth these olde wise
                                
                                  And that ful sone I wele it veryfye
                                
                                  In this chanoun rote of alle trecherye
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                                  That eueremore delit hath & gladnesse
                                
                                  Sweche fendely thouȝtis in his herte inpresse

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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 554
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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