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

                                
                                     [6-text p 567] 
                                  
                                  But gon with ȝow & come with ȝow a-geyn [folio 390a] 
                                
                                  The chambere dore schortly for to seyn
                                  Line 1217 
                                
                                  They openede & schette & wente here weye
                                
                                  And forth with hem they caryedyn the keye
                                
                                  And come ageyn with-outyn ony delay
                                
                                  What schulde I taryen al the longe day
                                  Line 1221 
                                
                                  He tok the chalk & schop it in the wise
                                
                                  Of an Ingot as I schal ȝow deuyse
                                
                                  I seye he tok out of his owene sleue
                                
                                  A teyne of syluyr euele mote he cheue
                                  Line 1225 
                                
                                  Whiche that ne was but an ounce of weighte
                                
                                  And taketh hed now of his owene sleighte
                                
                                  He schop his Ingot in lenthe & in breede
                                
                                  Of this teigne with-outyn ony drede
                                  Line 1229 
                                
                                  So slyly that the prest it nat espide
                                
                                  And in his sleue a-non he gan it hide
                                
                                  And from the fuyr he tok vp his mater
                                
                                  And in the Ingot put it with merye cheer
                                  Line 1233 
                                
                                  And in the watyr vessel he it caste
                                
                                  Whan that hym leste & bad the prest as faste
                                
                                  Loke what there is put in thyn hand & grope
                                
                                  Thow fynde schalt there syluyr as I hope
                                  Line 1237 
                                
                                  What deuyl of helle schulde it ellis be
                                
                                  Schauynge of syluyr syluyr is parde
                                
                                  // He put his hand in & tok vp a teyne
                                
                                  Of silluyr fyn & glad in euery veyne
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                                  Was this prest whan he seyg[h] that it was so
                                
                                  Goddis blyssyngis & hise moderis also
                                
                                  And alle halwis haue the sere chanoun
                                
                                  Seyde the prest & I here malysoun
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                                  But & ȝe vouchen saf to techyn it me
                                
                                  This nobelle craft & this sotylete
                                
                                  I wele been ȝoure in al that euere I may
                                
                                  // Quod the chanoun ȝit wele I make asay
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                                  The secunde tyme that ȝe may takyn hede
                                
                                  And been expert of this / & in ȝoure nede

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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 559
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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