The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  In al the chirche / god so saue me
                                
                                  Ȝe god amende defautes / sire quod she
                                
                                  Algates wolcome be ȝe / be my fay
                                
                                  Graunt mercy dame / this haue I founde alway
                                  Line 1812 
                                
                                  But of ȝoure greet goodnesse / be ȝoure leeue
                                
                                  I wolde preye ȝow / that ȝe nat ȝow greeue
                                
                                  I wol with Thomas / speke a litel throwe
                                
                                  Theise curatours / ben so negligent / and slowe
                                  Line 1816 
                                
                                  To gropen tenderly / a conscience
                                
                                  In shrift / in prechynge / is my diligence
                                
                                  And studye / in Petres wordes / and in Poules
                                
                                  I walke and fisshe / mennes soules
                                  Line 1820 
                                
                                  To ȝelden ihesu crist / his propre rent
                                
                                  To sprede his word / is sette al myn entent
                                
                                  ¶ Now be ȝoure leue / deere sire quod she
                                
                                  Chideth him wele / for seynt charite
                                  Line 1824 
                                
                                  he is as angry / as a Pissemyre
                                
                                  Though that he haue / al that he can desire
                                
                                  Though I him wrye a nyght / & make him warme
                                
                                  And ouer him leye / my legge and eke myn arme
                                  Line 1828 
                                
                                  he groneth lyke oure Boor / lith in oure sty
                                
                                  Other disport of him / right noon haue I
                                
                                  I may nat pleese him / in no maner caas
                                
                                  O Thomas ieo vous dye / Thomas Thomas
                                  Line 1832 
                                
                                  This maketh the fend / this must ben amended
                                
                                  Ire is a thyng / that heye god defended
                                
                                  And ther-of wol I speke / a word or twoo
                                
                                  Now maister quod the wyf / or that I goo
                                  Line 1836 
                                
                                  What wol ȝe dyne / I wol go ther-aboute
                                
                                  Now dame quod he / now ieo vous die saunȝ doute
                                
                                  haue I nat of a Capone / but the lyuere
                                
                                  And of ȝoure white bred / no but a shyuere
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  And after that / a rosted pygges hede [folio 87b] 
                                
                                  But that I nolde for me / no beest were dede
                                
                                  Than had I with ȝow / homly sufficeaunce
                                
                                  I am a man / of litel sustenaunce

                                  Line 1844

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 221
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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