The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 514]

[Brit. Mus. Harl. 7334 begins again, leaf 157.]

                                  
                                    lasse þan a þousand pound he wolde nought haue
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                                    Ne gladly for þat somme he wolde not goon
                                  
                                    Aurilius wiþ blisful hert anoon
                                  
                                    Answerde þus. fy on a þousand pound
                                  
                                    This wyde world which þat men say is round
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                                    I wold it ȝiue if I were lord of it/
                                  
                                    This bargeyn is ful dryue for we ben knyt
                                  
                                    Ȝe schal be payed trewly by my trouþe /
                                  
                                    But lokeþ now for necligence or slouþe
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                                    Ȝe tarie vs heer no lenger þan to morwe /
                                  
                                    Nay quod þis clerk haue her my faith to borwe
                                  
                                    To bed is goon aurilius whan him leste
                                  
                                    And wel neigh al night he had his reste

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 355
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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