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

                                
                                     [6-text p 389] 
                                  
                                  My spirit is fostred in þe bible
                                
                                  þe body is ay so redy and penyble
                                
                                  To wake þat my stomak is destroyed
                                
                                  I pray ȝou dame þat ȝe be nought anoyed
                                  Line 1848 
                                
                                  þey I so frendly my counseil to ȝou schewe
                                
                                  By god I wolde not telle it/ but a fewe
                                
                                  Now sire quod sche but oo word or I go
                                
                                  my child is deed wiþinne þise wikes tuo
                                  Line 1852 
                                
                                  Siþþen þat ȝe wente out of þis toun
                                
                                  his deþ saugh I by reuelacion
                                
                                  Seiþ þis frere at home in oure dortour
                                
                                  I dar wel seyn þat/ er þat half an hour
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  after his deþ I sawh him born to blisse
                                
                                  In myn avision so god me wisse
                                
                                  So dede our sextein and oure fermorer [folio 123b] 
                                
                                  That han ben trewe freres. fyfty ȝeer
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  They may now god by þanke of his lone
                                
                                  maken here Iubile and walken allone
                                
                                  And vp I ros and alle oure couent eeke
                                
                                  With many a teere trillyng on my cheeke
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Wiþouten noyse or clateryng of bellis
                                
                                  Te deum was oure song and no þing elles
                                
                                  Saue þat to crist I seyde an orison
                                
                                  Thankyng him of his reuelacion
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  ffor sire and dame trusteþ me right wel
                                
                                  Oure orisons ben more spirituel
                                
                                  And more we se of cristes secre þinges
                                  Line 1871 
                                
                                  Than burel folk [though they were kynges [Harl. 1758 folio 109a] 
                                
                                  We lyue in pouerte & in abstynence.
                                
                                  And borell solke] in richesse and wynnynges [[in dispence. Harl. 1758]] 
                                
                                  Of mete and drynk and in here foul delit/
                                
                                  We han þis worldes lust al in despit
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                  Lazar and Diues liueden dyuersely
                                
                                  And dyuerse guerdon hadde þey þerby
                                
                                  Who-so wol preye he moot faste and be clene
                                
                                  And fatte his soule and make his cheekes lene

                                  Line 1880

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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 268
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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