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

                                
                                  And þer-with-al he brought vs out of toun
                                
                                  A gentil maunciple was þer of a temple /
                                
                                  Of which achatours mighte take exsemple /
                                  Line 568 
                                
                                  ffor to ben wyse in byeng of vitaile
                                
                                  ffor wheþer þat he paied or took by taile
                                
                                  Algate he wayted so in his achate
                                
                                  That he was ay biforn and in good estate /
                                  Line 572 
                                
                                  Now is not þat of god a ful fair grace
                                
                                  That such a lewed mannes witt schal pace
                                
                                  The wisdom of an heep of lernede men
                                
                                  Of maistres hadde mo þan þries ten
                                  Line 576 
                                
                                  That were of lawe expert and curious [folio 9a] 
                                
                                  Of which þer was a dosein in that hous
                                
                                  Worþi to ben Stywardes of Rente and londe
                                
                                  Of any lord þat is in Ingelonde
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  To make him lyue by his propre good
                                
                                  In honour detteles but if þat he were wood
                                
                                  Or lyue as skarsly as him list desire
                                
                                  And able for to helpen al a schire
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                                  In any cas þat mighte falle or happe
                                
                                  And ȝit þis manciple sette here alþer cappe
                                
                                  The Reeue was a sclender colerik man
                                
                                  His berd was schaue as nygh as euer he can
                                  Line 588 
                                
                                  His her was by his eeres ful round y-schorn
                                
                                  His toppe was dokked lik a prest biforn
                                
                                  fful longe were his legges and ful lene
                                
                                  I-lik a staf þer was no calf y-sene
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                                  Wel couþe he kepe a garner or a bynne
                                
                                  Ther was non auditour couþe on him wynne
                                
                                  Wel wist he by þe drought and by þe reyne
                                
                                  The yeldyng of his seed and of his greyne
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                                  His lordes scheep his neet his dayerie
                                
                                  His swyn his hors his stoor and his pulletrie
                                
                                  Was holly in þis Reeues gouernynge /
                                
                                  And by his couenant ȝaf þe rikenynge
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                                  Syn þat his lord was twenty ȝeer of age

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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 17
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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