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

                                
                                     [6-text p 590] 
                                  
                                  [ffor euery man saue thou hath tolde his/ tale/. [Harl. 1758 folio 204b] 
                                
                                  Vn-bocle & schewe vs/ what/ is/ in thi male.
                                
                                  ffor truly me thynketh be thi chere.
                                
                                  Thou schuldist knyt/ vp well/ a gret/ matere.
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                                  Telle vs/ a fable a-non for cockis/ bones/.
                                
                                  This/ Person answerde all/ at/ ones.
                                
                                  Thou getist/ fable non y-tolde for me.
                                
                                  ffor Poule that/ writeth vn to Tymothe.
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                                  Repreuyth hem that/ waifen sothfastnesse.
                                
                                  And tellen fablis/ & suche wrecchidnesse.
                                
                                  Whi schulde I schewen draf out/ of/ my feste.
                                
                                  When I maie schewe whete if/ that/ me leste.
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                                  ffor whiche I seie if/ that/ thou list/ to here.
                                
                                  Moralite & vertuous/ matere.
                                
                                  And then that/ ye wolen ȝeue me audience.
                                
                                  I woll/ full/ feyne at/ cristes/ reuerence.
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                                  Don you plesaunce leefull/ as/ I can.
                                
                                  But trustith well/ I am a sothryn man.
                                
                                  I can noght/ geste rom ram ruf bi lettre.
                                
                                  Ne god woot/ rym holde I but litell/ bettre.
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                                  And therfore if you list/ I woll/ noght/ glose.
                                
                                  I woll/ you telle a merye tale in prose.
                                
                                  To knyt/ vp all/ this/ feste & make an ende.
                                
                                  And ihesu for his/ grace/ witt/ me sende. [Harl. 1758 folio 205a] 
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                                  To schewe you the weie in this/ viage.
                                
                                  Of/ thilke parfite glorious/ pilgrymage.
                                
                                  That/ hight/ hierusalem celestiall/.
                                
                                  And if/ ye vouche saf/ a-non ye schall/.
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                                  Begynne vp on my tale for whiche I preie.
                                
                                  Telle your/ a-vys/ I can no better/ seie.
                                
                                  But/ natheles/ this/ meditacion.
                                
                                  I put/ hit/ aye vndir/ correccion.
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                                  Of/ clerkis/ for I am noght/ text/ well/.
                                
                                  I take but/ the sentence trustith well/.
                                
                                  Therfore I make protestacion.
                                
                                  That/ I woll/ stonde to correccion.

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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 580
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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