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

                                
                                     [6-text p 570] 
                                  
                                  The coper teyne nought knowyng þis prest
                                
                                  And hidde it and hent him by þe brest/
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                                  And to him spak and þus sayde in his game
                                
                                  Stoupeth a-doun by god ȝe ben to blame
                                
                                  helpeþ me now as I dede ȝow whil er
                                
                                  Put in ȝour hond and loke what is þer
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                                  This prest took vp þis siluer teyne anoon
                                
                                  And þanne sayde þe chanoun let vs goon
                                
                                  wiþ þese þre teynes whiche þat we han wrought
                                
                                  To som goldsmyth and wite if it be ought
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                                  For by my faith I nolde for myn hood
                                
                                  But if þey were siluer fyn and good
                                
                                  And þat as swiþe proued schal it be
                                
                                  Vnto þe goldsmith wiþ þese teynes þre
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                                  Thay went and putte þese teynes in assay
                                
                                  To fuyr and hamer might no man say nay
                                
                                  But þay were as hem oughte be
                                
                                  This sotted prest who was gladder þan he //
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                                  was neuer brid gladder agayn þe day
                                
                                  Ne nightyngale in þe sesoun of may
                                
                                  was neuer noon þat liste better to synge /
                                
                                  Ne lady lustier in carolynge
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                                  And for to speke of loue and wommanhede
                                
                                  Ne knyght in armes doon an hardy deede/
                                
                                  To stonde in grace of his lady deere
                                
                                  Than hadde þis prest þis craft for to lere
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                                  And to þe chanoun thus he spak and seyde
                                
                                  For þe loue of god þat for vs deyde
                                
                                  And as I may deserue it vnto ȝow
                                
                                  what schal þis receyt coste telleþ now
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                                  By oure lady quod þe chanoun it is deere
                                
                                  I warne ȝow wel for sire I and a freere
                                
                                  In Engelond þer can man it make /
                                
                                  No fors quoþ he now sire for goddes sake /
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                                  what schal I paye telleþ me I pray
                                
                                  I-wis quod he it is ful dere I say

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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 410
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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