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

                                
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                                  Breþerne quod he takeþ kepe whatt .I. seie
                                
                                  My witte is grete þouhe þat .I. bourde and pleie
                                
                                  This tresor haþe fortun to vs ȝeuen
                                
                                  In merþe and Iolite oure lif to leuen
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                                  And lihtly as it commeþ so wil we spende
                                
                                  Ey goddes precious dignite who wende
                                
                                  To daie þat we scholde haue so faire a grace
                                
                                  Bot myht þis golde be caried fro þis place
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                                  Home to my hous oþer elles vnto ȝoures
                                
                                  þan myht we seie þat it were al oures
                                
                                  þan were we in hihe felicite
                                
                                  Bott trewly be daie it maie nouht be
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                                  Men wold seie þat we were þeues stronge
                                
                                  And for owre owen tresoure done vs honge
                                
                                  This tresore most .ykaride be by nyht
                                
                                  As wisely and as slely as it miht
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                                  Where-for .I. rede lette loke amonge vs al
                                
                                  Be drawe and latte see where þe cutt will fal
                                
                                  And he þat haþe þe cutte wiþ hert bliþe
                                
                                  Schal renne to þe toune and þat ful swyþe
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                                  To bringe vs brede and wyne ful priuely
                                
                                  And tuo of vs schal kepe ful subtelly
                                
                                  þis tresoure wele and if he wil nouht tarien
                                
                                  Whanne þat it is nyht we wollen þis tresor karien
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                                  Be one assent where as vs lust beste
                                
                                  An kuttes one of hem brouht in his fiste
                                
                                  And badde hem drawe and loke on whome it wolde fall
                                
                                  And it fell on þe ȝongest of hem all
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                                  And forþe towarde þe toune he went anone
                                
                                  And also sone as he was gone
                                
                                  The tone of hem spake þus vnto þe toþere
                                
                                  Thou wost wele þat þou ert myn owen sworne broþere [folio 179a] 
                                
                                  Thin profite wil .I. tel þe anone
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                                  Thou woste wele þat oure felawe is gone
                                
                                  And here is golde and þat ful grete plente
                                
                                  Þat it schal departed be amonges vs þre

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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 450
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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