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

                                
                                     [6-text p 391] 
                                  
                                  And chast was man in paradys certayn
                                
                                  But herkne þere what I schal ȝou sayn
                                
                                  I haue no text of þat as I suppose
                                
                                  But I schal fynde it in a maner glose
                                  Line 1920 
                                
                                  That specially oure swete lord Ihesus
                                
                                  Spak þus by vers whan he seyde þus
                                
                                  Blessed ben þey þat pore in spirit/ ben
                                
                                  And so forþ al þe gospel may ȝe seen
                                  Line 1924 
                                
                                  Wher it be like oure profession
                                
                                  Or hem þat swymmen in possession
                                
                                  ffy on here pompe and on here glotonye
                                
                                  And for here lewednesse I hem diffye
                                  Line 1928 
                                
                                  Me þinkeþ þey ben like Iovinian
                                
                                  ffatte as a whale and walking as a swan
                                
                                  As vynolent as botel in þe spence
                                
                                  here prayer is ful of gret reuerence
                                  Line 1932 
                                
                                  Whan þey for soules sein þe psalme of dauid [folio 124b] 
                                
                                  lo buff þey sain cor meum eructauit
                                
                                  Who folweþ cristes gospel and his lore
                                
                                  But we þat humble be and chaste and pore
                                  Line 1936 
                                
                                  Werkers of goddes word and eek auditoures /
                                
                                  þerfore right as an hauke rype at a sours
                                
                                  vp springeþ vnto þe ayre right so prayeres
                                
                                  Of charitable and chaste besy freres
                                  Line 1940 
                                
                                  maken here sours to goddes eeren and who
                                
                                  Thomas þerfore so mote I ride or go
                                
                                  And by þat god þat cleped is seint yue
                                
                                  Nere þou oure broþer schuldest þou not þriue
                                  Line 1944 
                                
                                  In oure chapitre praye we day and night
                                
                                  To crist þat he sende þe hele and might
                                
                                  Thy body for to welden hastily
                                
                                  God wot quod he noþing þer-of wot I
                                  Line 1948 
                                
                                  As helpe me crist as in fewe ȝeeres
                                
                                  haue I spended vpon diuers maner freres
                                
                                  fful many a pound ȝit fare I neuer þe bett
                                
                                  Certein my good haue I almost bisett

                                  Line 1952

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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 270
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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