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

                                
                                     [6-text p 387] 
                                  
                                  haue I vpon þis benche faren wel
                                
                                  heere haue I eten many a mery meel
                                
                                  And fro þe benche he drof awey þe cat
                                
                                  And leyde doun his potent and his hat
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                                  And eek his scrippe and sette him softe a doun
                                
                                  his felawe was go walked in þe toun
                                
                                  fforþ with his knaue in-to þat ostelrie
                                
                                  Wher as he schop him þilke night to lye
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                                  O deere maister quod þis seeke man
                                
                                  how han ȝe fare siþenes þat marche bigan
                                
                                  I say ȝow nought þis fourtenight and more
                                
                                  God woot quod he laboured haue I ful sore
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                                  And specially for þy Saluacion
                                
                                  haue I seyde many a precious orison
                                
                                  And for oure oþer frendes god hem blesse [folio 122b] 
                                
                                  I haue to day don at ȝoure chirche a messe
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                                  A sayd a sermon after my simple wit
                                
                                  nought alle after þe text of holy writ
                                
                                  ffor it is hard to ȝou as I suppose
                                
                                  þerfore wol I teche to ȝou al þe glose
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                                  Glosyng is a glorious þing certein
                                
                                  ffor lettre sleeþ so as clerkes sein
                                
                                  þer haue I taught hem to be charitable
                                
                                  And spende here good þer it is resonable
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                                  There I sawh oure dame a wher is sche
                                
                                  yonde in þe yerde I trowe þat sche be /
                                
                                  Seyde þis man and sche wil come anon
                                
                                  Ey mayster welcome be ȝe by seint/ Iohn
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                                  Seyde þis wijf how fare ȝe hertely
                                
                                  þe frere ariseþ vp ful curteisly
                                
                                  And hir enbrased in his armes narwe
                                
                                  And kisseþ hir swete and chirkeþ as a sparwe
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                                  Wiþ his lippes dame quod he right wel
                                
                                  As he þat is your seruant eueridel
                                
                                  I-þanked be god þat ȝou ȝaf soule and lyf
                                
                                  ȝit/ sawh I not to day so fair a wijf

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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 266
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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