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

                                
                                     [6-text p 562] 
                                  
                                  Certes quod he no þinge anoyeþ me
                                
                                  To lene a man a noble or tuo or þre
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                                  Or what þinge were in myn possessione
                                
                                  Whan he so trewe is of condicione
                                
                                  þat in no wise breke wil his daie
                                
                                  To suche a man .I. can neuer saie naye
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                                  What quod þis chanon schold .I. be vntrewe
                                
                                  Naye it were þinge fallen al of þe newe
                                
                                  Treuþe is a þinge þat .I. wil euer kepe
                                
                                  In to þe daie in whiche þat [I] schal crepe
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                                  In to my graue and elles god for-bede
                                
                                  Beleueþ þis as seker as is ȝoure crede
                                
                                  God þonke .I. and in goode time be it seide
                                
                                  þat þer was neuer man ȝit yuel appaide
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                                  For golde ne siluer þat he to me lent
                                
                                  And neuer falsed in myne herte y ment
                                
                                  And sir quod he nowe of my priuete
                                
                                  And seþen . ȝe so goodly haue bue to me
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                                  And kiþed to me so grete gentillesse
                                
                                  Som whatte to whiten wiþ ȝoure kindenesse
                                
                                  .I. wil ȝowe schewe .&. if ȝowe lust to lere
                                
                                  .I. schal it schewe to ȝowe anone riht here
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                                  Howe .I. kan worchen in filosophie
                                
                                  Takeþ goode hede ȝe scholn sene wele att ye
                                
                                  þat .I. wil do a maistre ar .I. goo
                                
                                  Ȝe sir quod þe preste . ȝe sire and wil ȝe so
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                                  Mary þere-of .I. praie ȝowe hertely
                                
                                  Att ȝoure commandement sir treuly
                                
                                  Quod þe chanon and elles god for-bede
                                
                                  Lo how þis þef couþe . his seruise bede
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                                  Ful soþe it is þat suche proferd seruise
                                
                                  Stinkeþe as wittenes þis olde wyse
                                
                                  And þat ful sone .I. wil . it verifie
                                
                                  In þis chanone is rote of al trecherie [folio 164b] 
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                                  That euermore delite haþe and gladnesse
                                
                                  Suche fendely þouhtes in his hert empresse

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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 412
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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