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

                                
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                                  In al þe chirche god so saue me
                                
                                  ȝe god amende defautes sir quod sche
                                
                                  Algates welcome be ȝe by my fey
                                
                                  Gramercy dame þis haue I founde alwey
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                                  But of ȝour grete goodnes by ȝour leeue
                                
                                  I wolde pray ȝou þat ȝe nought ȝou greue
                                
                                  I wole with Thomas speken a litel þrowe
                                
                                  þese curates ben ful necligent/ and slowe
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                                  To grope tendrely a conscience
                                
                                  In schrifte and in preching is my diligence
                                
                                  And studye in petres wordes and in poules
                                
                                  I walke and fisshe mennes soules
                                  Line 1820 
                                
                                  To ȝelde ihesu crist/ his propre rente
                                
                                  To sprede his wordes is sette al myn entente
                                
                                  ¶ Now by ȝour leeue o deere sire quod sche [folio 123a] 
                                
                                  Chydeþ him wel for god in trinite
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                                  he is as angry as a pissemire
                                
                                  þey þat he haue al þat he can desire
                                
                                  þey I him wrye a night and make him warm
                                
                                  And ouer him leye my legg or arm
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                                  he groyneþ lik oure boor gronyng in sty
                                
                                  Oþer desport of him right non haue I
                                
                                  I may not plesen him in no maner caas
                                
                                  ¶ Ieo vous dy trescher & bien amy O Thomas
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                                  This makeþ þe feende þis mot ben amended
                                
                                  Ire is a þing þat heye god defended
                                
                                  And þer-of wol I speke a word or tuo
                                
                                  Now maister quod þe wijf or þat I go
                                  Line 1836 
                                
                                  What wol ȝe dyne I wole go þer aboute
                                
                                  Now dame quod he Ieo vous dye sanz doute
                                
                                  haue I not of a Capon but þe lyuere
                                
                                  And of ȝour softe brede but a schyuere
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  And after þat a rosted pigges heed
                                
                                  But þat I wolde for me no beeste were deed
                                
                                  þanne hadde I wiþ ȝou holly suffisance
                                
                                  I am a man of litel sustenance /

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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 267
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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