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

[6-text p 199]

                                  
                                    NO more of þis for goddes dignite [on leaf 210, back] 
                                  
                                    Quoþ oure hoste for þou makest me
                                  
                                    So wery of þy lewednes
                                  
                                    That also wisly god me bles
                                    Line 2112 
                                  
                                    Myn eres ake of þin darsty speche [go on to]  [folio 217a] 
                                  
                                    Now such a rymere þe deuel y beteche
                                  
                                    This may be wel rym dogerell quod he
                                  
                                    Why so quod I why wilt þou lette me
                                    Line 2116 
                                  
                                    More of my tale þan anoþer man
                                  
                                    Seþens it is þe beste Rym I can
                                  
                                    By god quod he pleynly I þe say
                                  
                                    þou schalt no lenger rymen heere to day
                                    Line 2120 
                                  
                                    Thow dost nought elles but dispendest tyme
                                  
                                    Sire at O word þou schalt no lengere ryme
                                  
                                    Let se wheþer þou canst telle ought in geste
                                  
                                    Or telle in prose somwhat at þe leste
                                    Line 2124 
                                  
                                    In which þer be som merþe and som doctrine
                                  
                                    Gladly quod I by goddes swete pyne
                                  
                                    I wol ȝou telle a litel þing in prose
                                  
                                    þat oughte like ȝou as I suppose /
                                    Line 2128 
                                  
                                    Or elles certeyn ȝe ben to daungerous
                                  
                                    It is a moral tale vertuous
                                  
                                    Al be it tolde somtyme in sondry wyse
                                  
                                    Of sondry folk as I schal ȝou deuyse
                                    Line 2132 
                                  
                                    As þus ȝe wote euery euaungeliste
                                  
                                    That telleþ vs of ihesu criste
                                  
                                    Ne saiþ nouȝt al þing as his felawe doþ
                                  
                                    But natheles here sentence is al soþ
                                    Line 2136 
                                  
                                    And all acorden as in here sentence
                                  
                                    Al be þer in here tellyng difference

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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 486
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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