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

                                
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                                  Bot he trespas in worde eyþer in dede
                                
                                  In holy write ȝe maie ȝoure self wele rede
                                
                                  Aȝeines an old man hore vpon his hede
                                
                                  Ȝe scholden arise wher-for .I. ȝif ȝowe rede
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                                  Ne doþe nouht to an olde man none harme nowe
                                
                                  Ne more þan ȝe wolde men dide to ȝow
                                
                                  In age if þat . ȝe so longe abide
                                
                                  And god be wiþe ȝowe wheþer ȝe go or ride
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                                  .I. mote go þeder þer as .I. haue to go
                                
                                  Nay olde cherle be god þou schalt nouht so
                                
                                  Saide þis oþere hasardour anone
                                
                                  Thou partes nouht so lyhtly be seint Iohn
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                                  Thou spakkest riht nowe of þilke traitour deþe
                                
                                  That in þis Countre al oure frendes sleþe
                                
                                  Haue here my trouþe as þou ert his aspye
                                
                                  Tel where he his or þou schalt abye
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                                  Be god and be þe holi sacrament
                                
                                  For soþely þou ert on of his assent
                                
                                  To slene vs ȝonge folke þou fals þef
                                
                                  Nowe sire if þat it be to ȝowe so lef
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                                  To finde deþe torne vp þis croked weie
                                
                                  For in þat . groue .I. laft him be my feye
                                
                                  Vnder a tre and þere he wil abide
                                
                                  Ne for ȝoure boste he wil him no þinge hide
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                                  See ȝe þat ooke riht þere ȝe schulne him finde
                                
                                  God saue ȝowe þat bouht ȝeine mankinde [folio 178b] 
                                
                                  And ȝowe amend þus seide þis olde manne
                                
                                  And euery of þes ryetours ranne
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                                  Til þei came to þe tree and þere þei fonde
                                
                                  Of flerens fyne of gold y-koyned rounde
                                
                                  Wele nyhe a .vij. buschels as hem þouht
                                
                                  No longere þan after deþe þei souht
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                                  Bot iche of hem was so gladde of þe siht
                                
                                  For þat þe floreyns so faire bien and briht
                                
                                  Þat doune þei sett hem be þe precious horde
                                
                                  The werst of hem þo spak þe first worde

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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 449
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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