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

                                
                                     [6-text p 387] 
                                  
                                  Have .I. vpon þis benche fare wele
                                
                                  Here haue .I. ete mony a mery mele
                                
                                  And fro þe benche he drove a-waie þe catt
                                
                                  And laide adoune his potent and his hatt
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                                  And eke his scripe and sett him soft adoune
                                
                                  His felowe was go walked in þe toune
                                
                                  Forþe wiþ his knaue in-to þat hostlerie
                                
                                  Where as he schope him þilke nyht to lye
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                                  O dere maister quod þis seke man
                                
                                  Howe haue ȝe fare . seþ marche be-gan
                                
                                  .I. sauhe ȝou nouht þis fourtenyht and more
                                
                                  God wote quod he labourde haue .I. ful sore
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                                  And speciali for þin saluacione
                                
                                  Haue .I. seide mony a precious orisone
                                
                                  And for oure oþere frendes god hem blesse
                                
                                  .I. haue to-daie done at ȝoure cherche a messe
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                                  And seide a seremon after my simple witte
                                
                                  Nouht al after þe text of holy wrytte
                                
                                  For it is harde to ȝowe as .I. suppose
                                
                                  Ther-fore. wil .I. tell al þe glose
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                                  Glosinge is a glorious þinge certeine
                                
                                  For letter sleþe so as clerkes seine
                                
                                  Ther haue .I. tauht hem to be charitable.
                                
                                  And spende here goode þere it resonable [folio 108b] 
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                                  þere .I. sauhe oure dame a where is sche
                                
                                  ȝonde in þe ȝerde .I. trowe sche be
                                
                                  Seide þis man and sche wil come anone
                                
                                  Ey Maister welcome be ȝe be seint Iohn
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                                  Seide þis wif howe fare ȝe hertly
                                
                                  þe frere riseþ vp ful curtasly
                                
                                  And her · enbraseþ in his armes narwe
                                
                                  And kisseþ hir swete and chirkeþ as a sparowe
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                                  Wiþ his lippes; dam quod he riht wele
                                
                                  As he þat is ȝoure seruant euerydele
                                
                                  I-þonkede be god þat ȝow ȝaf soule and lif
                                
                                  Ȝit sawe .I. nouht to-daie so faire a wif

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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 266
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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