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

                                
                                     [6-text p 170] 
                                  
                                  And eek an officer out for to ryde
                                
                                  To see here graunges and here bernes wyde
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                                  And vnto seynt Denys he comeþ anon
                                
                                  Who was so welcome as my lord daun Iohn
                                
                                  Oure deere cosyn ful of curtesye
                                
                                  Wiþ him brought he a Iobbe of maluesye
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                                  And eek anoþer ful of good vernage
                                
                                  And volatille as ay was his vsage
                                
                                  And þus I lete hem ete and drynke and pleye
                                
                                  This marchand and þis monk a day or tweye /
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                                  The þridde day þis marchand vp ariseþ
                                
                                  And on his needes sadly him aviseþ
                                
                                  And vp in to his countourhous goþ he /
                                
                                  To rekne wiþ himselue wel may be
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                                  Of þilke ȝeer how þat it with him stood
                                
                                  And how þat he despended hadde his good
                                
                                  And if þat he encresed were or non
                                
                                  his bokes and his bagges many oon
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                                  he leyþ bifore him on his countyng bord
                                
                                  fful riche was his tresour and his hoord
                                
                                  ffor which ful faste his counterhous dore he schette
                                
                                  And eek he nolde noman schulde him lette
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                                  Of his acountes for þe mene tyme [folio 205b] 
                                
                                  And þus he sitte til it was passed prime
                                
                                  Daun Iohn was rysen in þe morne also /
                                
                                  And in þe gardyn walkeþ to and fro
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                                  And haþ his þinges sayde deuoutely
                                
                                  þis goode wyf cam walkynge pryuely
                                
                                  In to þe gardyn þer he walkeþ softe
                                
                                  And him salueth as sche haþ don ofte
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                                  A mayden childe came in hire companye
                                
                                  Which at hire luste may gouerne and gye
                                
                                  ffor ȝit vnder þe ȝerde was þe mayde
                                
                                  O deere Cosyn myn daun Iohn sche sayde /
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                                  What eyleþ ȝou so raþe to aryse
                                
                                  Nece quod he it aughte ynough suffise

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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 457
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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