The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                  
                                    Reuel and trouthe as in a lough degre
                                  
                                    þey been ful wroþe alday as men may se
                                  
                                    This Iolif prentys with his maister bood
                                  
                                    Til he were neigh out of his prentyshood
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                                    Al were he snybbed boþe erly and late
                                  
                                    And som tyme lad with Reuel to Newgate
                                  
                                    But atte last his mayster him biþoughte
                                  
                                    vpon a day whan he his paper soughte
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                                    Of a prouerbe þat seiþ þis same word
                                  
                                    Wel bette is roten appul out of hord
                                  
                                    þan þat it rotye al þe remenant
                                  
                                    So fareþ it by þe riotous seruant
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                                    It is ful lasse harm to late it pace
                                  
                                    þanne he schende all þe seruantȝ in þe place
                                  
                                    Therfore his mayster ȝaf him a quitance
                                  
                                    And bad him go with sorwe and with meschance
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                                    And þus þis Ioly prentys hadde his leue
                                  
                                    Now lat him riote al þe night or leue
                                  
                                    And for þer nys no þeef wiþouten a lowke
                                  
                                    That helpeþ him to wasten and to sowke/
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                                    Of þat he brybe can or borwe may
                                  
                                    Anon he sente his bedde and his array
                                  
                                    vnto a Coupere of his owne sorte
                                  
                                    That louede dys and Reuel and disporte
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                                    And hadde a wyf þat heeld for contynance/
                                  
                                    A schoppe / and swyued for hire sustynance. [[No break in the MS.]]

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 128
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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