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 ...

                                
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                                  The Coper Teyne / nat knowyng þis preest/
                                
                                  And hid it / and hym hent by the brest/
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                                  And to hym spake / and thus seid in his game
                                
                                  Stoupeth adoun / by god ye be to blame
                                
                                  Helpeth me now / as I did yow whilere
                                
                                  Put in your hande / and loke what is there
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                                  This preest/ toke vp þis siluer teyne anoon
                                
                                  And than seid the Chanon let vs goon
                                
                                  With thise iij. teynes / which þat we han wrought/
                                
                                  To som goldsmyth / and wete yf they ben ought/
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                                  ffor by my feith / I nold / for myn hode
                                
                                  But yf þat þey were siluer fyn and gode
                                
                                  And þat as swythe / preued shall it be
                                
                                  Vn-to þe goldsmyth with thise teynes .iij.
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                                  They went/ and put thise teynes in assay
                                
                                  To fire and hamer / myght no man sey nay
                                
                                  But þat þey weren / as hem ought to be
                                
                                  This sotted preest/ whoo was gladder þan he
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                                  Was neuer bird gladder / ayeinst the day
                                
                                  Ne nyghtyngale / in the seson of May
                                
                                  Was neuer noon / þat list bet to syng
                                
                                  Ne lady lustier / in karolyng
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                                  Or for to speke of loue / and wommanhede
                                
                                  Ne knyght in armes / don a doughty dede
                                
                                  To stonde in grace / of his lady dere
                                
                                  Than hade this preest/ þis sory craft to lere /
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                                  And to this Chanon / thus he spake and seid. [Eg. 2726 folio 234b] 
                                
                                  ffor the loue of god / that for vs all deid.
                                
                                  And as I may deserue it vn-to yow
                                
                                  What shall this resceit cost/ telleth now
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                                  By our lady koth this Chanon it is dere
                                
                                  I warn yow wele / for save I and a frere
                                
                                  In Engelond / there can no man it make
                                
                                  No force koth he / now sir for goddes sake
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                                  what shall I paye / telleth me I pray
                                
                                  I-wys koth he / it is full dere I say

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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 566
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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