The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 495] 
                                  
                                  As him; god woote ne neuer schal no mo
                                
                                  This last longer þan a ȝere or two
                                
                                  That .I. supposed of him no þinge bot goode
                                
                                  Bot finaly þus att þe laste it stode
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                                  That fortune wolde þat he most twynne
                                
                                  Owte of þat place whiche þat .I. was inne
                                
                                  Where me was woo it is no questione
                                
                                  .I. kan nouȝt make of hit discripcione
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  For o þinge dar .I. tell boldely
                                
                                  .I. knowe what is þe peine of deþe þer-by
                                
                                  Suche harme .I. felte for he ne myht be-leue
                                
                                  So on a daye of me he toke is leue
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                                  So sorwfully eke þat .I. wende verrayly
                                
                                  That he had feled as muche harme as .I.
                                
                                  Whan þat .I. herd him speke and sawe his hiewe
                                
                                  Bot naþeles .I. þouht he was so trewe
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                                  And eke þat he repaire scholde agayne
                                
                                  Wiþ inne a lite while soþe to seine
                                
                                  And reson wolde eke þat he mot go
                                
                                  For his honour as oft happeþ so
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                                  þat maade vertue of necessite
                                
                                  And toke it wele seþþe þat it most be
                                
                                  As .I. best myht .I. hidde fro him my sorwe
                                
                                  And toke him by þe honde seint Iohn to borwe
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                                  And seid þus. lo .I. am ȝoures al
                                
                                  Beþe suche as .I. haue. bue to ȝowe and schal
                                
                                  What he answarde it nedeþ nouht reherse
                                
                                  Who can sei bet þan he whou kan do werse
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                                  Whan he haþ al wele seide þan haþ he done
                                
                                  Ther-for be-houeþ him a ful longe spone
                                
                                  þat schal eten wiþ a fende þus herd .I. seie
                                
                                  So att þe last he mote forþe his weye
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                                  And forþe he flyeþ til he cam where him liste
                                
                                  Whan it com him to purpos for to riste.
                                
                                  I trowe he hadde þilke text in mynde. [folio 86b] 
                                
                                  Þat al þinge repaireinge to his kinde

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 210
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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