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

                                
                                     [6-text p 254] 
                                  
                                  For sche is big in armes by my faith
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                                  That schal he fynde þat hire mys doth or saith [folio 226b] 
                                
                                  But let vs passe a way fro þis matiere
                                
                                  My lord þe monk quod he be mery of chere /
                                
                                  For ȝe schul telle a tale trewely
                                
                                  Lo Rowchestre stant heer faste by
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                                  Ryde forþ myn oughne lord brek nouȝt oure game
                                
                                  But by my trouþe I can not ȝoure name
                                
                                  whether schal I calle ȝow my lord dan Iohn
                                
                                  Or daūn Thomas or elles dan albon
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                                  Of what hous be ȝe by ȝour fader kyn
                                
                                  I vow to god þou hast a ful fair skyn
                                
                                  It is a gentil pasture þer þou gost
                                
                                  Thow art not lik a penaunt or a goost
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                                  vpon my faith þou art an officer
                                
                                  Som worþy sexteyn or som Celerer
                                
                                  For by my fader soule as to my doome
                                
                                  Thou art an officer whan þou art at hoom
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                                  No pouer cloysterer ne non nouys
                                
                                  But a gouernour wily and wys
                                
                                  And þer wiþ al of brawne and of bones
                                
                                  A wel faryng persone for þe noones
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                                  I praye god ȝiue him confusioun
                                
                                  Þat first/ þe brouȝte to religioun
                                
                                  Thow woldist han be a tredefoul aright
                                
                                  haddist þou as gret a leue as might
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                                  To parforme al þi wil in engendrure
                                
                                  Thow haddist bigeten many a creature
                                
                                  Allas why werest þou so wyd a cope
                                
                                  God ȝif me sorwe and I were a pope
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                                  Nought only þou but euery mighty man
                                
                                  Though he were schore brode vpon his pan
                                
                                  Schuld han a wif for al þis world is lorn
                                
                                  Religioun hath take vp al þe corn
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                                  Of tredyng and we burel men ben schrympes
                                
                                  Of feble trees þer comeþ feble ympes

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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 531
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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