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

                                
                                     [6-text p 392] 
                                  
                                  Fare wele my golde for it is al a-goo
                                
                                  þe frere answerde o thomas whi dostowe soo
                                
                                  What nedeþ ȝowe diuers freres to seche
                                
                                  What nedeþ hem þat haþ a parfite leche
                                  Line 1956 
                                
                                  To seche oþer leches in þe toune
                                
                                  Ȝoure inconstance is ȝoure confusione
                                
                                  Holde ȝe me þan or elles oure couente
                                
                                  To praie for ȝowe buen insufficiente
                                  Line 1960 
                                
                                  Thomas þat Iape is nouht worþe a myte
                                
                                  Ȝoure maladie is for ȝe haue geuen vs so lite
                                
                                  A ȝef þat couent half a quarter otes
                                
                                  A ȝef. on or tuo grotes
                                  Line 1964 
                                
                                  A ȝef þe frere a peny and late him goo
                                
                                  Nay nay Thomas it maie no þinge be so [folio 110b] 
                                
                                  What is a ferþinge worthe parted in twelue
                                
                                  Lo iche a þinge þat is houed be him selue
                                  Line 1968 
                                
                                  Is more strange þan whan it is scaterd
                                
                                  Thomas of me þou schalt nouht bene flaterde
                                
                                  Tho woldest owre laboure haue for nouht
                                
                                  þe hihe god þat al þis welde haþ wrouht
                                  Line 1972 
                                
                                  Seiþ þat þe werkman is worþi his hire
                                
                                  Thomas nouht of ȝowre tresoure .I. desire
                                
                                  As for my self. bott for al oure couent
                                
                                  To praie for ȝowe is aye so diligent
                                  Line 1976 
                                
                                  And for to bilden cristes owen chirche
                                
                                  Thomas if ȝe wil leren for to wirche
                                
                                  Of bildeinge vp of cherches mai ȝe finde
                                
                                  If it be goode In thomas lif of hinde
                                  Line 1980 
                                
                                  Ȝe ligge here ful of Anger and of yre
                                
                                  Wiþ whiche þe deuel sette ȝowre eres of fire
                                
                                  An chiden hire þis sely innocent
                                
                                  Ȝoure wif þat is so meke and pacient
                                  Line 1984 
                                
                                  And þer-fore Thomas trowe me if ȝowe list
                                
                                  Ne striue wiþe þi wife al for þe best
                                
                                  And bere pis worde awaie be þi faiþe
                                
                                  Toucheinge suche þinge lo what þe wise man seiþe

                                  Line 1988

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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 271
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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