"Lordinges," qoud he,...

"My theme is alwey..."

"First I pronounce whennes that I come..."

"Oure lige lordes seel on my patente..."

"And after that thanne..."

"Bulles of popes and of cardinales..."

"Thanne shewe I forth my longe cristal stones..."

"-Relikes been they..."

"Thanne have I in latoun a sholder-boon..."

"Goode men" I seye..."

"If that this boon..."

"If cow, or calf..."

"That any worm..."

"Taak water of..."

"And it is hool..."

"of pokkes and of..."

"Shal every sheep be..."

"Drinketh a draughte..."

"If that the good-man..."

"Wol every wyke..."

"Fastinge, drinken of this..."

"As thilke hooly Jew..."

"His beestes..."

"And, sires, also it..."

"For though a man..."

"Lat maken with this..."

"And nevere shal..."

"Though he the soothe..."

"Al had she taken..."

"Heere is a miteyn..."

"He that his hand..."

"He shal have..."

"Whan he hath..."

"So that he offer pens..."

"Goode men and..."

"If any wight..."

"That hath doon..."

"Dar nat, for..."

"Or any womman..."

"That hath ymaad..."

"Swich folk shal..."

"To offren to my..."

"And whoso..."

"He wol come up..."

"And I assoille him..."

"Which that by bulle..."

"By this gaude..."

"An hundred..."

"I stonde lyk...:

"And whan the..."

"I preche..."

"And telle an hundred..."

"Thanne peyne I me..."

"As sooth a dowve..."

"Mine handes..."

"That it is joye"

"Of avarice and of..."

"Is al my preching..."

"To yeven..."

"For myn entente..."

"And nothing for..."

"I rekke nevere..."

"Though that hir..."

"For certes..."

"Comth ofte time..."

"Som for plesance..."

"To been..."

"And som for veyne..."

"For whan I dar noon..."

"Thanne wol I stinge..."

"In preching..."

"To been defamed..."

"Hath trespased..."

"For though I telle..."

"Men shal wel..."

"By signes..."

"Thus quyte I..."

"Thus spitte I..."

"Of hoolinesse..."

"But shortly myn..."

"I preche of no..."

"Therfore my theme..."

"Radix..."

"Thus kan I..."

"Which that I use..."

"But though myself be..."

"Yet kan I maken..."

"From avarice..."

"But that is nat..."

"I preche nothing..."

"Of this mateere..."

"Thanne telle I hem..."

"Of olde stories..."

"For lewed..."

"Switche thinges..."

"What, trowe..."

"And winne gold..."

"That I wol live..."

"Nay, nay, I..."

"For I wol..."

"I wol nat do..."

"Ne make baskettes..."

"By cause I wol..."

"I wol noon..."

"I wol have moneie..."

"Al were yeven..."

"Or of the povereste..."

"Al sholde..."

"Nay, I wol drinke...."

"And have a joly..."

"But herkneth..."

"Youre liking is that..."

"Now have I dronke..."

"By God, I hope..."

"That shal by reson..."

"For though myself..."

"A moral..."

"Which I am..."

"Now hoold youre..."