They tolden euery man / þat he was wood
He was agast so / of Nowelys flood
Thurgh fantasie / þat of his vanytee
He hadde yboght hym / knedyng tubbes thre
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And hadde hem hanged / in the roof aboue
And þat he preyde hem / for goddes loue
To sitten in the roof / par compaignye
¶ The folk gan laughen / at his fantasye
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In to the roof / they kiken and they cape
And turned al his harm / vn to a Iape
ffor what so / þat this Carpenter answerde
It was for noght no man his reson herde
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With othes grete / he was so sworn adoun
That he was holden wood / in al the toun
ffor euery clerk / anon right heeld with oother
They seyde / the man was wood / my leeue brother
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And euery wight gan laughen at this stryf [folio 50b]
Thus swyued / was the Carpenters wyf
ffor al his kepyng and his Ialousye
And Absolon / hath kist hir nether Iye
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And Nicholas / is scalded in the toute
This tale is doon / and god saue al the route
. ¶ Here is ended / the Millerys tale. [[No gap in the MS.]]
