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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                                  ffor euery man saue þou / hath told his tale
                                
                                  Vnbokle and shewe vs / what is in þy male
                                
                                  ffor truely me thynketh / by þy chere
                                
                                  Thow sholdest knytte vp wele a grete matere
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                                  Tell vs a fable anon / for goddes bones
                                
                                  This parson answerd / all at ones
                                
                                  Thow getest/ fable noon ytold for me
                                
                                  ffor Poule þat writeth vn-to Tymothe
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                                  Repreven hem / þat weyven sothfastnesse
                                
                                  And tellen fables / and soch wrecchednesse
                                
                                  Why shold I sowe draf/ out of my fyst/
                                
                                  Whan I may sowe whete / yf þat me lyst/
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                                  ffor which I sey / þat yf þou list to here
                                
                                  Moralitee/ and vertuous matere
                                
                                  And þan / that ye woll yeue me audience
                                
                                  I woll fayn / at cristes reuerence
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                                  Do yow plesaunce leefull/ as I can
                                
                                  But trusteth wele / I am a sothern man
                                
                                  I can nat geest/ rom / ram / ruf by lettre
                                
                                  Ne god wote / ryme hold I but litle better
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                                  And therfore yf þou list/ I woll nat glose
                                
                                  I woll yow tell a mery tale in prose
                                
                                  To knytte vp all þis feest/ and make an ende
                                
                                  And Ihesu for his grace / witte me sende/.
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                                  To shewe yow / þe weye in this viage [Eg. 2726 folio 241b] 
                                
                                  Of thylk perfyte glorious pilgrymage
                                
                                  That hight Ierusalem celestiall/
                                
                                  And yf ye vouchesauf/ anoon I shall/
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                                  Begynne vp-on my tale / for which I prey
                                
                                  Tell your avice / I can no better sey
                                
                                  But natheles / this meditacion
                                
                                  I put it ay / vnder correccion
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                                  Of clerkes / for I am nat textuell/
                                
                                  I take but þe sentence / trusteth well
                                
                                  Therefore I make / a protestacion
                                
                                  That I woll stond / to correccion

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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 584
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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