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

                                
                                     [6-text p 562] 
                                  
                                  Certes quod he no þing annoyeþ me
                                
                                  To lene a man a noble or tuo or þre/
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                                  Or what þing/ were in my possessioun
                                
                                  whan he so trewe is of condicioun
                                
                                  That in no wise he breke wol his day
                                
                                  To such a man I can neuer say nay
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                                  what quod þis chanoun schold I be vntrewe;
                                
                                  Nay þat were þing I-fallen of þe newe /
                                
                                  Trouþe is a þing þat I wol euer kepe /
                                
                                  Vnto þat day in which þat I schal crepe
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                                  In to my graue and elles god forbede /
                                
                                  Bilieueth þis as siker as ȝour crede /
                                
                                  God þank I and in good tyme be it sayd
                                
                                  That þer was neuer man ȝet euel a-payd
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                                  For gold ne siluer þat he to me lent
                                
                                  Ne neuer falshed in myn hert I ment
                                
                                  And sire quod he now of my priuete
                                
                                  Syn ȝe so goodlich haue be vnto me
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                                  And kyþed to me so gret gentilesce
                                
                                  Som-what to quyte wiþ ȝoure kyndenesse
                                
                                  I wil ȝow schewe and if ȝow lust/ to lere [folio 176a] 
                                
                                  [1I wil ȝow teche pleynly the manere1 [[1_1 In a later hand.]] ]
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                                  how I kan werken in philosophie
                                
                                  Takith good heed. ȝe schul seen wel at ye
                                
                                  That I wol doon a maystry er I go
                                
                                  Ȝe quod þe prest . ȝe sire and wol ȝe so
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                                  Mary þer of I pray ȝow hertily
                                
                                  At ȝoure comaundement sire trewely
                                
                                  Quod þe chanoun and elles god forbede
                                
                                  Lo how þis þeef couþe his seruise beede /
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                                  Ful soth it is þat such profred seruise
                                
                                  Stynkeþ as witnessen þese olde wise
                                
                                  And þat ful soone I wol it verefye /
                                
                                  In þis chanoun roote of al treccherie
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                                  That euermor delit haþ and gladnesse /
                                
                                  Such feendly þoughtes in his hert empresse

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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 402
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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