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

                                
                                     [6-text p 174] 
                                  
                                  And forþe sche goþe as gelous as a pye
                                
                                  And badde þe cokes þat þei scholde hem hihe
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  So þat men myht dyne and þat anone [folio 183b] 
                                
                                  Vp to hir husbond is þis wif gone
                                
                                  And knokkeþ att his Counter boldely
                                
                                  Que la quod he peter it am .I.
                                  Line 1404 
                                
                                  Quod sche whatte howe longe wil ȝe fast
                                
                                  Howe longe time wil ȝe reken and kast
                                
                                  Ȝoure sommes ȝoure bokes and ȝoure þinges
                                
                                  The deuel haue part on al suche rekenynges
                                  Line 1408 
                                
                                  Ȝe haue y-nowhe parde of goddes sonde
                                
                                  Comme doune to daie and latte ȝoure bagge stonde
                                
                                  Ne be ȝe nouht aschamed þa[t] dan Iohn
                                
                                  Schal fastinge al þis daye Elenge gone
                                  Line 1412 
                                
                                  What latt vs here Masse go we dyne
                                
                                  Wif quod þis man litel canstowe deuyne
                                
                                  The Corious besines þat we haue
                                
                                  ffor of vs chapmen so god me saue
                                  Line 1416 
                                
                                  And be þat lorde þat called is seinte Ive
                                
                                  Scarsely amonges tuelue tweyne schollen þriue
                                
                                  Continuly lasteynge vnto oure age
                                
                                  We maye wele make chiere and good visag
                                  Line 1420 
                                
                                  And driue forþe þe werld as it maie be
                                
                                  And kepen oure estate in priuete
                                
                                  Til we be dede or elles þat we pleie
                                
                                  On pilgrenage or gone out of þe weye
                                  Line 1424 
                                
                                  And þere-fore haue .I. grete necessite
                                
                                  Vpon þis qweinte werlde to avise me
                                
                                  ffor euer more we must stonde in drede
                                
                                  Of happe and fortune in myne chapmanhede
                                  Line 1428 
                                
                                  To flandres wil .I. go to morwe att daye
                                
                                  And Come aȝeine as sone as euer y maye
                                
                                  ffor whiche my dere wif .I. þe be-seke
                                
                                  As be to euery wyht buxum and meke
                                  Line 1432 
                                
                                  And for to kepe oure goode be curiouse
                                
                                  And honestly gouerne wele oure house

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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 463
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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