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

                                
                                     [6-text p 567] 
                                  
                                  But go with ȝou and come with ȝou agayn
                                
                                  The chambre dore schortly for to sayn
                                  Line 1217 
                                
                                  þey opeynd and schette and wente forþ here weye
                                
                                  And forþ wiþ hem þey caryed þe keye
                                
                                  And comen agayn wiþouten eny delay
                                
                                  What scholde I tarie al þe longe day
                                  Line 1221 
                                
                                  he took þe chalk and schoop it in þe wyse
                                
                                  Of an yngot as I schal ȝou deuyse
                                
                                  I say he took out of his owne sleeue
                                
                                  A teyne of Siluer euele mote he cheeue
                                  Line 1225 
                                
                                  Which þat was but an vnce of weight
                                
                                  And takeþ heede now of his cursed sleight
                                
                                  he schop his Ingot in lengþe and in brede
                                
                                  Of þe theyne wiþouten eny drede
                                  Line 1229 
                                
                                  So slyly þat þe prest it not aspyde
                                
                                  And in his sleeue again he gan it hyde
                                
                                  And from þe fyre took vp his matiere /
                                
                                  And in to þe Ingot it putte wiþ merye cheere
                                  Line 1233 
                                
                                  And in to þe watir vessel he it caste
                                
                                  Whan þat him liste and bad þe prest as faste
                                
                                  loke what þer is / put in þin hond and grope
                                
                                  Thou schalt fynde þere siluer as I hope
                                  Line 1237 
                                
                                  What deuyl of helle schuld it elles be
                                
                                  Schafyng of siluer siluer is parde
                                
                                  he putte in his hond and took vp a teyne
                                
                                  Of siluer fyn and glad in euery veyne
                                  Line 1241 
                                
                                  Was þis prest whan he saugh þat it was so
                                
                                  Goddes blessyng and his modres also [folio 187b] 
                                
                                  And alle halwes haue ȝe sire Chanon
                                
                                  Seyde þe prest and I here malison
                                  Line 1245 
                                
                                  But and ȝe vouche sauf to teche me
                                
                                  þis noble crafte and þis sotilte
                                
                                  I wol be ȝoure in alle þat euer I may
                                
                                  Quoþ þe Chanon ȝit wol I make assay
                                  Line 1249 
                                
                                  The seconde tyme þat ȝe mowe take heede
                                
                                  And ben expert of þis and in ȝoure neede

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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 417
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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