The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  That she hadde had a shipe / hir self allone
                                
                                  And ther-fore / wostow what is best to done
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                                  This axeth haste / and of any hastyf thyng
                                
                                  Men may noght preche / or maken tariyng
                                
                                  Anoon go gete vs faste / in to this In
                                
                                  A knedyng trogh / or ellis a kymelyn
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                                  ffor eech of vs / but looke þat they be large
                                
                                  In whiche we mowen swymme / as in a barge
                                
                                  And han ther-Inne / vitaille suffisaunt
                                
                                  But for a day / fy on the remenaunt
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                                  The water shal aslake / and goon away
                                
                                  Aboute pryme / vp on the nexte day
                                
                                  But Robyn may nat wite of this / thy knaue
                                
                                  Ne eek thy mayde Gille / I may nat saue
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                                  Axe noght why / for thogh thou axe me
                                
                                  I wol noght tellen goddes pryuetee
                                
                                  Suffiseth thee / but if thy wittes madde
                                
                                  To han as greet a grace / as Noe hadde
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                                  Thy wif shal I wel sauen / out of doute
                                
                                  Go now thy wey / and speed thee heer aboute
                                
                                  But whan thou hast / for hire and thee and me
                                
                                  Ygeten vs / thise knedyng tubbes thre
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                                  Thanne shaltow hangen hem / in the roof ful hye
                                
                                  That no man / of oure purueiance espye
                                
                                  And whan thow thus hast doon / as I haue seyd [folio 47a] 
                                
                                  And hast oure vitaille / faire in hem yleyd
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                                  And eek an Ax / to smyte the corde atwo
                                
                                  Whan þat the water cometh / þat we may go
                                
                                  And breke an hole / an heigh vp on the gable
                                
                                  Vn to the gardynward / ouer the stable
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                                  That we may frely / passen forth oure wey
                                
                                  Whan þat the grete shour / is goon awey
                                
                                  Thanne shaltow swymme / as murye I vndertake
                                
                                  As dooth the white doke / after his drake
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                                  Thanne woltow clepe / how Alison / how Iohn
                                
                                  Be murye / for the flood wol passe anon

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 102
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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