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

                                  
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                                    þat on ȝoure bridel hongeþ on euery side
                                  
                                    Be heven kinge þat for vs al deide
                                  
                                    I schal for þis fal doune for slepe
                                  
                                    Al-þouhe þe slouhe hadde neuere be so depe
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                                    Than hadde ȝoure tale be tolde in veyne
                                  
                                    For certeynly as þes clerkes seyne
                                  
                                    Where as a man maye haue none audience
                                  
                                    Nowht he[l]peþ to tellen his sentence
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                                    And wele .I. woote þe substance is in me
                                  
                                    If any þinge schal wele Reported bee
                                  
                                    Sire sey sum whatt of hunteinge .I. ȝowe preie
                                  
                                    Naye quod þe monke .I. haue no luste to pleie
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                                    Nowe latte a noþere tel as .I. haue tolde
                                  
                                    Than spak oure Oste wiþ rude speche & bolde
                                  
                                    And seide vnto þe Nones preste anone
                                  
                                    Com nere sir prest come hider sir Iohn
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                                    Tel vs suche þinge as may oure hertes glaade
                                  
                                    Be merye þouhe þou ride vpon a Iade
                                  
                                    þat þouhe þine hors be foule or lene
                                  
                                    If he wil serue þe rekke þe nouht a bene
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                                    Looke þat þine herte be mere euermo
                                  
                                    Ȝis oste quod he so mot .I. ride or go
                                  
                                    Bot .I. be mery .I.-wisse .I. wil be blamede
                                  
                                    And riht anone he haþe his tale tamede
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                                    And þus he seide to vs euerychon
                                  
                                    This swete preste þis goodman sir Iohn

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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 571
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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