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

                                
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                                  Tel. howe he doþe .I. praie þe hertelye
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                                  Seþen þat he is so craftie and so slye
                                
                                  Where dwellen ȝe it to tel be
                                
                                  In þe subbarbes of a toune quod he
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                                  Lurkeinge in Hirnes and in lanes blinde
                                
                                  Where þes robbers and þeues be kinde
                                
                                  Holden her priue fereful residence
                                
                                  As þei þat dare nouht schewe her presence
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                                  So fare we if .I. schal sey þe soþe
                                
                                  ȝit quod oure Oste lat me talke to þe
                                
                                  Whie ert þou discoloure in þi face
                                
                                  Peter quod he god ȝif harde grace
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                                  I am so vsed in þe fire to blow
                                
                                  That it haþe chaunged my colour as .I. trowe
                                
                                  .I. am nouht wont in no myrrour to prie
                                
                                  Bot swynke sore and leren to multiplie
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                                  We blondern euer and pouren in þe fire
                                
                                  And for al þat we failen of oure desire
                                
                                  For euere we lakken oure conclusione
                                
                                  To muche folke we bene bot illusione
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                                  And borwe golde be it a pounde or tuo
                                
                                  Or ten. or .xij. or mony summes mo
                                
                                  And make hem wene att þe leste weie
                                
                                  þat of o pou[n]de we couþe maake tweie
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                                  ȝit is it fals and aye we haue good hope
                                
                                  It forto done and after it we grope
                                
                                  Bot þat science is so fer vs be-forne
                                
                                  We mowe nouhte al-þouhe we had it suorne
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                                  It ouertake. it slide a-waie so faste
                                
                                  It wil vs make beggers att þe last
                                
                                  Whiles þis ȝoman was þus in þis talkeinge
                                
                                  This Chanon drouhe him nere and herd al þinge
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                                  Whiche þat þis ȝoman spak for suspecione
                                
                                  Of men speche euer had þis chanone
                                
                                  For Caton seiþe he þat giltif is
                                
                                  Demeþ al þinge be spoke of him ywys

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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 400
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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