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

                                
                                     [6-text p 254] 
                                  
                                  ffor sche is bigge in armes by my feiþ
                                
                                  That schal he fynde þat hire mysdoþ or seiþ
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                                  But lat vs passe away fro þis matiere /
                                
                                  My lord sire monk he saiþ be mery of cheere /
                                
                                  ffor ye schul telle a tale trewely
                                
                                  Lo Rouchestre stant here faste by
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                                  Ryd forþ myn owne lord brek nouȝt our game
                                
                                  But by my trouþe I knowe nouȝt ȝoure name /
                                
                                  Wheþer I schal calle ȝou my lord daun Iohn
                                
                                  Or Daun Thomas or elles Daun Albon
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                                  Of what hous be ȝe by your fader kyn
                                
                                  I vowe to god þou hast a ful fayr skyn
                                
                                  It is a gentil pasture þer þou gost [folio 235a] 
                                
                                  Thou art nouȝt like a penant or a gost
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                                  Vppon my feiþ þou art som officer
                                
                                  Som worþy Sexteyn or som Celerer
                                
                                  ffor by my fader soule as to my dome
                                
                                  Thou art a maister whan þou art at home
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                                  No pouer cloysterer ne no pouer novys
                                
                                  But gouernour wyly and wys
                                
                                  And þer-with-al of brawnes and of bones
                                
                                  A wel faryng persone for þe nones
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                                  I pray to god ȝiue him confusion
                                
                                  That ferst þe brought in to religion
                                
                                  Thou woldest haue ben a tredefoul aright
                                
                                  Haddest þou as gret leue as þou hast might
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                                  To perfourme al þy lust in engendure /
                                
                                  Thou haddest bygeten many a creature
                                
                                  Allas why werest þou so wyd a Cope
                                
                                  God ȝif me sorwe and I were a Pope
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                                  Nouȝt oonly þou but euery mighty man
                                
                                  Though he were schore heyhe vpon his pan
                                
                                  Schulde haue a wyf for al þis world is lorn
                                
                                  Religion haþ take vp al þe corn
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                                  Of tredyng and we borelle men ben schrimpes
                                
                                  Of feeble trees þer comeþ wrecched ympes

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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 541
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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