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

[6-text p 181]

Incipit prologus Priorisse [on leaf 186]

                                  
                                    Wele saide be corpus dampnus seide oure Oste
                                  
                                    Nowe longe mot þou seile be þis coste
                                  
                                    Sire gentil Maister gentil marinere
                                  
                                    God ȝeue þe monke a .M. last quade ȝere
                                    Line 1628 
                                  
                                    A ha felaus beþe war of suche a Iape
                                  
                                    The monke put in þe mannes hode an ape
                                  
                                    And in his wives eke be seint Austine
                                  
                                    Draueþ no monkes more vnto ȝoure inne
                                    Line 1632 
                                  
                                    Bot nowe passe ouere & lat vs seke aboute
                                  
                                    Who schal nowe telle first of al þis route
                                  
                                    Anoþer tale and wiþ þat worde he seide
                                  
                                    As curteysly as it hadde bue a maide
                                    Line 1636 
                                  
                                    My lady Prioresse be ȝoure leue
                                  
                                    So þat .I. wist .I. scholde ȝow not greue
                                  
                                    .I. wolde deme þat ȝe telle scholde
                                  
                                    A tale next if so were þat ȝe wolde
                                    Line 1640 
                                  
                                    Now wil ȝe vouche-saue my lady dere
                                  
                                    Gladly quod sche and seide in þis manere

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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 470
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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Full citation: "The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/agz8236.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.