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

Was neuer trompe of halfe so grete a soune This pardonere had here as ȝalowe as wax. Bot smothe it henge as doþ a strike of flax. 676 Bi ounces henge his lokkes þat he hadde And þer wiþ he his scholdres ouer spradde But þinne it leie be culpones one and one But hode for Iolyte wered he none 680 ffor it was trussed vp in his walet Him þouht he rode al of þe newe get Discheuele saue his cape he rode al bare Suche glayringe yhen had he as it were an hare 684 A vernicle had he sewe vpon his cape His walet [lay] to forne him in his lappe Bret ful of pardon comen from Rome al hote A voyce he had also smale as it were a gote 688 No berde had he ne neuer schuld haue As smoþe it was as it were late schaue .I. trowe he were a geldinge or a mare Bot of his craft fro Berwike in to ware 692 Ne was þere suche anoþer pardonere ffor in his male he hadde a pylowbere Whiche that he seide was owre lady veyle He seide he had a gobet of þe seile 696 That seint Peter had whan þat he wente Vpon þe see till ihesu crist him hente He had a croyce of Laton ful of stones And in a glasse he hadde Pygges bones 700 Bot wiþe þes relikes whan þat he fonde A pouer person dwellynge vpon londe Vppon a daie he gat him more moneye Than þat þe person gatte in þe Monethes tweye 704 And þus wiþ feyned flaterynge and Iapes He Maade þe persone and þe peple his Apes Bot trewly to tellen att þe laste He was in þe cherche a noble ecclesiaste 708 Wele couþe he rede a lesson or a story
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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