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

                                
                                     [6-text p 176] 
                                  
                                  This noble marchaunt gentilly anoon
                                
                                  Answerd and sayde. O cosyn daun Iohn [folio 198a] 
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  Now sikerly þis is a smal request
                                
                                  My gold is ȝoures whanne þat ȝow lest/
                                
                                  And nought oonly gold but my chaffare /
                                
                                  Tak what ȝow liste / god schilde ȝe spare
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  But oon þing is ȝe know it wel ynough
                                
                                  Of chapmen þat her money is here plough
                                
                                  we may creaunce whils we haue a name
                                
                                  But goldles for to be it is no game
                                  Line 1480 
                                
                                  Pay it agayn whan it liþ in ȝour ese /
                                
                                  After my might ful fayn wold I ȝow plese /
                                
                                  This hundred frankes he fet forth anoon
                                
                                  And priuely he took hem to daun Iohn
                                  Line 1484 
                                
                                  No wight in al þis world wist of þis loone
                                
                                  Sauyng þe marchaund and dan Iohn alloone
                                
                                  Thay drynke & speke and rome a while and play
                                
                                  Til þat dan Iohn rydeþ to his abbay
                                  Line 1488 
                                
                                  The morwe cam and forth þe marchaund rideth
                                
                                  To Flaundres-ward his prentis wel him gydeth
                                
                                  Til þat/ he cam to Brigges merily
                                
                                  Now goth þis marchaund faste and busily
                                  Line 1492 
                                
                                  Aboute his neede and bieth and creaunceth
                                
                                  He neither pleyeth atte dys ne daunceþ
                                
                                  But as a marchaund schortly for to telle
                                
                                  he lad his lyf / and þer I let him duelle
                                  Line 1496 
                                
                                  The sonday next þe marchaund is agoon
                                
                                  To seint denys I-come is daun Iohn
                                
                                  with croune and berd al freisch and newe I-schaue
                                
                                  In al þe hous þer nas so litel a knaue
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                                  Ne no wight elles þat he nas ful fayn
                                
                                  For þat my lord dan Iohn was come agayn
                                
                                  And schortly to þe poynte for to gon
                                
                                  This faire wif acordith with dan Iohn
                                  Line 1504 
                                
                                  That for þese hundred frank he schuld al night
                                
                                  Haue hir in his armes bolt/ vpright

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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 453
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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