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

                                
                                  Than wold he speke no word but latyne
                                
                                  A fewe termes hadde he tuo or þre
                                
                                  That he had lerned out of som decre
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                                  No wonder is he herd it al þe day
                                
                                  And eek ȝe knowen it wel how þat a Iay
                                
                                  Can clepe watte as wel as can þe pope
                                
                                  But who so couþe in oþer þing him grope
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                                  Than hadde he spent al his philosophie
                                
                                  Ay questio quid Iuris wolde he crye
                                
                                  He was a gentil harlot and a kynde
                                
                                  A bettre felaw schulde men not fynde
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                                  He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn [folio 10a] 
                                
                                  A good felawe to haue his concubyn
                                
                                  A twelf moneth and excuse him atte fulle /
                                
                                  fful priuely eek a fynch couþe he pulle /
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                                  And if he fond owher a good felawe
                                
                                  He wolde techen him to han non awe
                                
                                  In such caas of þe Erchedeknes curs
                                
                                  But if mannes soule were in his purs
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                                  ffor in his purs he scholde punyssched be
                                
                                  Purs is þe Erchedeknes helle seide he
                                
                                  But wel I wot he lyhede right in dede
                                
                                  Of cursyng ought eche gilty man him drede
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                                  ffor curs wil sle right as assoylyng sauith
                                
                                  And also war him of a Significauith
                                
                                  In daunger hadde he at his owne gyse
                                
                                  The yonge gerles of þe diocise
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                                  And knew here counseil and what was al here rede
                                
                                  A garland hadde he sette vpon his heede
                                
                                  As gret as it were for an ale stake
                                
                                  A bokeler hadde he made him of a cake /
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                                  With him þer rood a gentill pardoner
                                
                                  Of Rouncyuall his frend and his comper
                                
                                  That streight was comen fro þe court of Rome
                                
                                  fful lowe he song come hider loue tome
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                                  This Somnour bar to him a stif burdoun

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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 19
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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