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

                                
                                     [6-text p 396] 
                                  
                                  It needeþ nomore speke of it sayde he
                                
                                  But if me luste of myn humilite
                                
                                  Ȝiue me þenne of þy gold to make oure cloystre
                                
                                  Quod he for many a muscle and many an oystre
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                                  haþ ben our foode oure cloystre for to reyse
                                
                                  Whan oþer men han ben ful wel at eyse
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot vnneþes þe foundement
                                
                                  Parformed is ne of oure pauyment
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                                  Nis nought a tile ȝit wiþinne oure wones
                                
                                  By god we owen fourty pound for stoones/
                                
                                  Now helpe thomas for him þat harwed helle
                                
                                  Or elles moote we oure bokes selle
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                                  And if we lacke oure predicacion
                                
                                  þanne goþ þe world al to destruccion
                                
                                  ffor whos wolde fro þis world vs byreue
                                
                                  So god me saue Thomas by ȝoure leeue
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                                  he wolde byreue out of þe world þe sonne / [folio 127a] 
                                
                                  ffor who can teche and werchen as we konne
                                
                                  And þat is not of litel time quod he
                                
                                  But sethyns Elye was or Elyze
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                                  han freres ben þat fynde I of record
                                
                                  In charite I-þanked be oure lord
                                
                                  Now Thomas help for seinte charite
                                
                                  A-doun anon he sette him on his kne
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                                  This sike man wex wel neigh wood for Ire
                                
                                  he wolde þat þe frere hadde ben a fuyre
                                
                                  With his fals dissimilacion
                                
                                  Such þing as is her in my possession
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                                  Quod he þat I may ȝiue and non oþer
                                
                                  ȝe sein me þus / þat I am ȝour broþer
                                
                                  ȝe certes quod þe ffrere trusteþ me wel
                                
                                  I took oure dame oure lettres wiþ oure seel
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                                  ¶ Now wel quod he and somwhat schal I ȝiue
                                
                                  vnto ȝour holy couent whil I lyue
                                
                                  And in þin hand þou schalt it han anon
                                
                                  vp þis condicion and oþer non

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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 275
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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