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 ...

                                
                                     [6-text p 175] 
                                  
                                  Thow hast I-now / in euery manere wyse
                                
                                  That to a thrifty houshold / may suffise
                                  Line 1436 
                                
                                  The lakketh noon array / ne no vitaille
                                
                                  Of siluer in thy purs / shaltow not faille
                                
                                  And with that word / his Countour dore he shette
                                
                                  And doun he goth / no lengere wold he lette
                                  Line 1440 
                                
                                  But hastily / a masse / was there seyde
                                
                                  And spedily the tables / were I-leyde
                                
                                  And to the dynere / faste they hem spedde
                                
                                  And richely this monk / the Chapman fedde
                                  Line 1444 
                                
                                  ¶ At after dyner / Daun Iohn sobrely
                                
                                  This Chapman toke a-part / and preuyly
                                
                                  he seid him thus / Cosyn it stondith so
                                
                                  That wel I se / to Brugges wyl ȝe go
                                  Line 1448 
                                
                                  God and seynt Austyn / spede ȝow and gyde
                                
                                  I preye ȝow Cosyn / wysely that ȝe ride
                                
                                  Gouerneth ȝow also / of ȝoure dyete
                                
                                  Atemprely / and namely in this hete
                                  Line 1452 
                                
                                  By-twixt vs two / nedeth no straunge fare [folio 153b] 
                                
                                  ffare wel Cosyn / god shilde ȝow from care
                                
                                  And if that any thyng / by day or nyght
                                
                                  If it be in my power / and my myght
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  That ȝe me wol comaunde / in any wyse
                                
                                  It shal be don / right as ȝe wol deuyse
                                
                                  But oo thyng or that ȝe gon / if it may be
                                
                                  I wolde preye ȝow / for to lene me
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  An hondred ffrankes / for a weke or tweye
                                
                                  ffor certeyne bestes / that I must beye
                                
                                  To store with a place / that is oures
                                
                                  God helpe me so / I wolde it were ȝoures
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  I shal nat faile surely / of my day
                                
                                  Nat for a thousand frankes / a myle way
                                
                                  But lat this thyng be secree / I ȝow preye
                                
                                  ffor ȝet to nyght / theise bestes mot I beye
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                                  And fare now wel / myn owen Cosyn deere
                                
                                  Graunt mercy of ȝoure cost / and of ȝoure chere

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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 396
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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