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

                                
                                     [6-text p 568] 
                                  
                                  A-nothir day assay in myn absence
                                
                                  This disciplyne & this crafty science
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                                  Let take a-nothir vnce quod he tho [folio 390b] 
                                
                                  Of quyk siluyr with-outyn wordis mo
                                
                                  An[d] do therwith as ȝe han don er this
                                
                                  Whith that othyr which that now syluyr is
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                                  // The prest hym besyed in al that euere he can
                                
                                  To doon as this Chanoun this cursede man
                                
                                  Comaundede hym & faste blew the fyr
                                
                                  ffor to come theffect of his desyr
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                                  And this chanoun rygh in the meene while
                                
                                  Al redy was this prest eft to begyle
                                
                                  And for a cuntenaunce in his hand he bar
                                
                                  An holmene stikke / taak keepe & be war
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                                  In the ende of which an ounce & nomore [[first namare]] 
                                
                                  Of silvir lemail put was as byfore
                                
                                  Was in his cole / & stoppid with wex weel
                                
                                  ffor to kepe in his lymayl euerydel
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                                  And whil the prest was in his besynesse
                                
                                  This chanoun with his stikke gan hym dresse
                                
                                  To hym a-non & his poudere caste in
                                
                                  As he dede er  [[t first d]] the deuyl out of his skyn
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                                  Hym turne I preye to god for his falsehede
                                
                                  ffor he was euere fals in thought & dede
                                
                                  And with this stikke a-boue the Croslet
                                
                                  That was ordeynyd with that false Iet
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                                  He styre [[ty altered]]  the colis til relente gan
                                
                                  The wex a-ȝen the fer as euery man
                                
                                  But it a fol be wot wel it mot neede
                                
                                  And al that in the stikke was out ȝede
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                                  And in the croslet hastyliche it fel
                                
                                  // Now goode sere what wele ȝe bet than weel
                                
                                  Whan that this prest was begiled ageyn
                                
                                  Supposynge nought but trouthe sothe to seyn
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                                  He was so glad that I can not expresse
                                
                                  In no manere his trouthe & his gladnesse

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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 560
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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