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

                                
                                     [6-text p 374] 
                                  
                                  þe þar no more as in þis caas trauaile
                                
                                  .I. am þi frende þere .I. þe maie availe
                                
                                  Sertein he knewe of briburs mo
                                
                                  þan possible is to tell ȝou to
                                  Line 1368 
                                
                                  For in þis werlde is no doge for þe bowe
                                
                                  þat knowe an hurt dere fro an holde bet cowe
                                
                                  þan þis Somenour knewe a licour
                                
                                  Or a vouter or elles a paramour
                                  Line 1372 
                                
                                  And for þat was þe fruyte of al þe rente
                                
                                  Ther-for on it he set al his entente
                                
                                  And so be-fel þat ones on a daie
                                
                                  þis Somnour euere wayteinge one his preye
                                  Line 1376 
                                
                                  Rode for to somne a holde wif a ribibe [folio 103b] 
                                
                                  Feynein a cause for he wald bribe
                                
                                  And happed þat he sauhe to-for him ride
                                
                                  A gaie ȝoman vnder a forest side
                                  Line 1380 
                                
                                  A bowe he bare and arwes briht and kene
                                
                                  He had vpon a courteby of grene
                                
                                  An hatte vpon his hede wiþ fenges blake
                                
                                  Sir quod þis Somnour heile and wele a take
                                  Line 1384 
                                
                                  Welkom quod he and euery good felawe
                                
                                  Weder rides þou vnder þis grene wod schawe
                                
                                  Saide þis ȝoman wilt þou fer to daie
                                
                                  þe Somnour him ansewerd and seide naye
                                  Line 1388 
                                
                                  Here fast by quod he is myn entent
                                
                                  To riden for to reisene vp a rent
                                
                                  It longeþ to my lordes dewte
                                
                                  Ert þou þan a baillif ȝe quod he
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                                  He dorst nouȝt fo verre felþe and schame
                                
                                  Sei þat he was somnour for þe name
                                
                                  De par dieux quod þis ȝoman dere broþer
                                
                                  þou ert a bailif. and .I. am anoþer
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                                  .I. vnknowen as in þis contre
                                
                                  Of þin acqueyntance .I. wil praie þe
                                
                                  And eke of breþerhede if þat þou liste
                                
                                  .I. haue golde and siluer in my chiste

                                  Line 1400

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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 253
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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