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

                                
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                                  And þis accorde parformed was in dede
                                
                                  In merþe al nyht a besi lif þei lede
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                                  Til it was daie þat Dan Iohn went his weie
                                
                                  And badde þe menyȝe fare wele and haue good daie
                                
                                  ffor none of heme no wight in þe toune
                                
                                  Haþe of dan Iohn riht none suspecione
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                                  And forþe he rideþ home to his abbeie
                                
                                  Or wher him list no more of him .I. seye
                                
                                  This Marchant whan þat ended was þe faire
                                
                                  To seint Denyse he gan to repaire
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                                  And wiþ his wif he makeþ fest and chere
                                
                                  And telleþ hire þat chaffer is so dere
                                
                                  Þat nedes most he maake a cheuesance
                                
                                  ffor he was bounden in a requenysance
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                                  To paye .xx. M. schildes anone
                                
                                  ffor whiche þis marchant is wont to gone
                                
                                  To borwe of certeine frendes þat he hadde
                                
                                  A certeine and somme wiþ him he ladde
                                  Line 1524 
                                
                                  And whan þat he was comen into þe toune
                                
                                  ffor grete chere and grete affeccione
                                
                                  Vn-to Dan Iohn him first goþe to pleie
                                
                                  Nouht for to borwe of him no moneye
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                                  Bot for [to] wite and see of his welfare [folio 185a] 
                                
                                  And for to tellen him of his chaffare
                                
                                  As frendes done whan þei be mette in fere
                                
                                  Dan Iohn. him Makeþ fest and mery chiere
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                                  And him tolde aȝeine ful specially
                                
                                  Howe he hadde bouht ful wele and graciously
                                
                                  Thonked he god al hole his Marchandise
                                
                                  Saue þat he must in al maner wise
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                                  Maken a cheuesans as for his best
                                
                                  And þan he scholde be in Ioye and rest
                                
                                  Dan. Anseward certes .I. am feyne
                                
                                  Þat ȝe in hele be comme home aȝeine
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                                  And if þat .I. were riche as haue .I. blisse
                                
                                  Off .xx. M. scheldes schold ȝe nouht mysse

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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 466
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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