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

                                
                                     [6-text p 590] 
                                  
                                  ffor euery man saue þou haþ told his tale
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                                  vnbokele and schewe vs what is in þy male [folio 261b] 
                                
                                  ffor trewely me þenkeþ by þy cheere
                                
                                  Thou scholdest knette vp wel a gret matiere
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                                  Telle vs a fable anon for cokkes bones
                                
                                  This person answered al at oones
                                
                                  Thou getest fable non y-tolde for me
                                
                                  ffor Poule þat writeþ vnto Thimothe
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                                  Repreueþ hem þat wayuen soþfastnesse
                                
                                  And tellen fables and such wrecchednesse
                                
                                  Whi schulde I schewen draff out of my feste /
                                
                                  Whan I may schewen whete if þat me leste
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                                  ffor which I saye if þat þou luste to heere
                                
                                  Moralite and vertuous matiere
                                
                                  And þenne þat ȝe woln ȝiue me audience
                                
                                  I wol ful fayn at cristes reuerence /
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                                  Don ȝou plesaunce lefful as I can
                                
                                  But trusteþ wel I am a sothryn man
                                
                                  I can nought geste rom ram ruf by lettre
                                
                                  Ne god wot rym holde I but lytel bettre
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                                  And þerfore if ȝou luste I wol nought glose
                                
                                  I wol ȝou telle a mery tale in prose
                                
                                  To knitte vp al þis feste an ende
                                
                                  And ihesu for his grace witte me sende
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                                  To schewe ȝou þe wey in þis visage
                                
                                  Of þilke parfyt glorious pilgrimage
                                
                                  That highte Ierusalem Celestial
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouche sauf anon ȝe schal
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                                  Bygynne vpon my tale for which I preye
                                
                                  Telle ȝoure avis I can no bettre seye
                                
                                  But naþeles þis meditacion
                                
                                  I putte it ay vnder correction
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                                  Of clerkes for I am nought text wel
                                
                                  I take but þe sentence trustel wel
                                
                                  þerfore I make protestacion
                                
                                  That I wol stonde to correction

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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 601
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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