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

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                                      Owre oost vpon his stiropes stood anoon [on leaf 90] 
                                    
                                      And seyde goode men herkeneþ euerych on
                                    
                                      This was a thrifty tale for þe nones
                                    
                                      Sire parissche prest quod he for goddes boones
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                                      Telle vs a tale as was þi forward yore
                                    
                                      I se wel þat ye lerned men in loore
                                    
                                      Can moche good by goddes dignete
                                    
                                      The parson him answerde benedicite
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                                      What eyleþ þe man so synfully to swere /
                                    
                                      Oure ost answerde. O Ianekyn be ye þere
                                    
                                      I smelle a lollere in þe wynd quod he
                                    
                                      how goode men quod oure host herkeneþ me
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                                      Abydeþ for goddes digne passion
                                    
                                      ffor we schal han a predicacion
                                    
                                      This lollere heer wil prechen vs som what
                                    
                                      Nay by my fader soule þat schal he nat
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                                      Seyde þe Esquier heer schal he nat preche
                                    
                                      He schal no gospel glosen here ne teche
                                    
                                      he leueþ all in þe grete god he
                                    
                                      he wolde sowen som difficulte
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                                      Or springen Cokkel in oure clene corn
                                    
                                      And þerfore oost I warne þe biforn
                                    
                                      My Ioly body schal a tale telle
                                    
                                      And I schal clynken ȝou so mery a belle
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                                      That I schal waken al þis compaignie
                                    
                                      But it schal not ben of philosophie
                                    
                                      Ne Phislyas ne termes queinte of lawe
                                    
                                      Ther is but litel latyn in my nawe [[The Squire's Tale follows 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 193
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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