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

                                
                                     [6-text p 375] 
                                  
                                  If þat ȝe happed to com in to owre schire
                                
                                  It schal be þine riht as þou wilt desire
                                
                                  Gremercie quod þis Somnour be my feiþe
                                
                                  Euer-iche in oþers honde her trouþ leyþe
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                                  For to be swore breþer to þei deye
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde þei ride forþe þer weie
                                
                                  þis somnour wiþ þat was as ful of Iangles
                                
                                  As foll of venym be þis wereangles
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                                  And euere enquireinge vpon euery þinge
                                
                                  Broþer quod he where is ȝoure dwelynge
                                
                                  Anoþer daie if .I. schal ȝou seche
                                
                                  þis ȝoman him ansewarde in soft speche
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                                  Broþe[r] quod he fer in þe norþe cuntre
                                
                                  Where as .I. hope some time .I. schal þe se
                                
                                  Ar we departe .I. schal þe so wel wisse
                                
                                  þat of myne hous schalt þou neuer mysse
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                                  Now broþer quod þis Somenour .I. ȝow preie
                                
                                  Teche me while we riden be þe weie.
                                
                                  Sen þat ȝe be a baillif as am .I. [folio 104a] 
                                
                                  Som subtilite tel me feiþfully
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                                  In myne office how þat .I. maie most winne
                                
                                  And spare nouht for conscience ne sinne
                                
                                  Bot as my broþer tel me howe do ȝe
                                
                                  Nowe be my trewþe broþer dere seide he
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                                  As .I. schal tellen þe a faiþful tale
                                
                                  My wage buen ful streite and smale
                                
                                  My lorde is harde to me and dangerous
                                
                                  And myne Office ful laborous
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                                  And þere-fore be extorcions .I. leue
                                
                                  For soþe .I. al þat men wil me ȝeue
                                
                                  Allgate be sleiht or violence
                                
                                  Frome ȝere to ȝere .I. winne al my dispence
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                                  .I. kan no better tellen faiþfully
                                
                                  Now sertes quod Somnour so fare .I.
                                
                                  .I. spare nouht to taken god it wote
                                
                                  Bot if it be to heuy or to hote

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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 254
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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