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

                                
                                  He was a verray parfit practisour
                                
                                  The cause I-knowe and of his harm þe rote /
                                
                                  Anon he ȝaf þe sike man his bote
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  fful redy had he his appotecaries
                                
                                  To sende hem drugges and his letuaries
                                
                                  ffor ech of hem made oþer for to wynne
                                
                                  Here frendschip nas nat / newe for to gynne /
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  Wel knew he þe olde Escalapius
                                
                                  And discorides and eke Rusus
                                
                                  Olde ypocras haly and Galien
                                
                                  Serapion Razie and auyzen
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  Auerois damascien and Constantine [folio 7a] 
                                
                                  Bernard and Gatisdene and Gilbertine
                                
                                  Of his diete mesurable was he
                                
                                  ffor it was of no superfluite
                                  Line 436 
                                
                                  But of gret norisshing and digestible
                                
                                  His studie was but litel on the bible
                                
                                  In sangweyn and in pers he clad was al
                                
                                  Lyned wiþ Taffata and with Sendal
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  And yet he was but esy of dispense
                                
                                  He kepte þat he wan in Pestilence
                                
                                  ffor gold in phisique is accordial
                                
                                  Ther-fore he loued gold in special
                                  Line 444 
                                
                                  A good wif þer was of by-syde bathe
                                
                                  But sche was somdel def and þat was skaþe
                                
                                  Of cloþ-makyng sche hadde such an haunte
                                
                                  Sche passed hem of ypres and of Gaunte
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  In al þe parissche wif ne was þer noon
                                
                                  Þat to þe offryng toforn hire schulde gon
                                
                                  And if þer dede certein wroþ was sche
                                
                                  That sche was oute of alle charite /
                                  Line 452 
                                
                                  Hire couerchiefs ful fyne were of grounde
                                
                                  I dorste swere þei weyeden ten pounde /
                                
                                  That on a soneday weren vpon hir hede
                                
                                  Hire hosen weren of fyn scarlet reede
                                  Line 456 
                                
                                  fful streyt yteyed and schoos ful moyste and newe

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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 13
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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