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

                                
                                     [6-text p 583] 
                                  
                                  Here lemman sertes þis is a knauysche speche
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                                  Forȝeuen it me & þat .I. ȝow beseche
                                
                                  The wise plauto seiþ as ȝe maie rede
                                
                                  The worde mot nede accorde wiþ þe dede
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  If men schal tel properly a þinge
                                
                                  The worde mot Cosine be to þe worcheinge
                                
                                  .I. am a bustuse man riht þus seie .I.
                                
                                  There is no difference treuly
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                                  Be-twex a wif þat is of hihe degre
                                
                                  If of hir body dishonest sche be
                                
                                  And a pouerer wenche oþere þan þis
                                
                                  If it so be þei werken boþe amys
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                                  Botte þat þe gentil is in astate aboue
                                
                                  Sche schal be cleped his ladi as in loue
                                
                                  And for þat toþer is a p[o]uere womman
                                
                                  Sche schal be cleped his wenche or his lemman
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                                  And god it woote myne owen dere broþere
                                
                                  Men leyþe þe tone as lowe as lyþe þat oþere
                                
                                  Riht so be-twyx a titles tirānt
                                
                                  And an owtelawe & a þefe errant [folio 228a] 
                                
                                  þe sam .I. seie þere is no difference
                                
                                  To Alisander was tolde þis sentence
                                
                                  þat for þe terant is of gretter myht
                                
                                  Be fors of meyne to sle doune riht
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                                  And birne hous & home and maken al pleyne
                                
                                  Lo þerefore he is clepe a Capiteigne
                                
                                  And for þe outelawe haþe bot smal menȝe
                                
                                  And may nouht do so grete an harme as he
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                                  Ne bringe a contre to so grete meschefe
                                
                                  Men klepen him an outelawe or elles an þef
                                
                                  Bot for .I. am a man not texed wele
                                
                                  .I. wil note tel of titus neuer a dele
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                                  .I. wil go to my tale as .I. beganne
                                
                                  Whan Phebus wif hadde sent for hir lemman
                                
                                  Anone þei wrouht al her lust volage
                                
                                  þis white crowe þat honge aye in þe cage

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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 597
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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