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

                                
                                     [6-text p 571] 
                                  
                                  Sire at on word ȝif that ȝow leste it haue
                                
                                  Ȝe schul paye fourty pound so god me saue
                                  Line 1361 
                                
                                  And nere the frenchepe that ȝe dede er this
                                
                                  To me ȝe schuldyn paye more I-wis
                                
                                  This prest the summe of fourty pound anon
                                
                                  Of noblis fette & tok hem euerichon
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                                  To this Chanun for this ilke resseit
                                
                                  Al his werkyng was but fraude & disseid
                                
                                  Sire prest quod he / I kepe to han no loos [folio 392a] 
                                
                                  Of myn craft for I wolde it kept weere clos
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                                  And as ȝe loue me kepith it secre
                                
                                  ffor and men knewyn al myn subtilete
                                
                                  By god they woldyn haue so gret enuye
                                
                                  To me by cause of myn philosophie
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                                  I schulde been deed there were non othir weye
                                
                                  God it for-bede quod the prest what seyȝe
                                
                                  ȝit hadde I leuere to spendyn al myn good
                                
                                  Whiche that I haue & ellis wexe I wood
                                  Line 1377 
                                
                                  Than that ȝe schuldyn fallyn in swich myschef
                                
                                  ffor ȝoure goode wil sere haue ȝe rygh good pref
                                
                                  Quod the chanoun & farewel graunt mercy
                                
                                  He wente his wey & neuere the prest hym sey
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                                  Aftyr that day & whan the prest schulde
                                
                                  Makyn assay at swych tyme as he wolde
                                
                                  Of this resseit farewel it wolde not be
                                
                                  Lo thus be-Iapid & begiled was he
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                                  Thus made he his introductioun
                                
                                  To brynge folk to distruccioun
                                
                                  // Considerith seris / how that in eche estat
                                
                                  By-twixe men & gold there is debat
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                                  So fer forth that onethis is there non
                                
                                  This multiplyinge thus blent manyon
                                
                                  That in good fey I trowe that it be
                                
                                  The cause grettest of swich skarsete
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                                  Philisopheris spekyn so mystily
                                
                                  In this craft that men may not come therby

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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 563
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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