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

                                
                                  But wil ne shal noght faillen / that is sooth
                                
                                  And yet I haue alwey / a coltes tooth
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                                  As many a yeer / as it is passed henne
                                
                                  Syn þat my tappe of lyf / bigan to renne
                                
                                  ffor sikerlik whan ik was bore anon
                                
                                  Deeth drogh the tappe of lyf / and leet it goon
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                                  And euere sith / hath so the tappe yronne
                                
                                  Til þat almoost / al empty is the tonne
                                
                                  The streem of lyf / now droppeth on the chymbe
                                
                                  The sely tonge / may wel rynge and chymbe
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                                  Of wrecchednesse / þat passed is ful yoore
                                
                                  With olde folk / saue dotage is namoore
                                
                                  ¶ Whan þat oure hoost hadde herd this sermonyng
                                
                                  He gan to speke / as lordly as a kyng
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                                  He seyde / what amounteth al this wit
                                
                                  What shal we speke al day / of holy writ
                                
                                  The deuel made / a Reue for to preche
                                
                                  Or of a Soutere / a Shipman / or a leche
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                                  Sey forth thy tale / and tarie noght the tyme
                                
                                  Lo Depeford / and it is half wey pryme
                                
                                  Lo Grenewych / ther many a sherewe is Inne
                                
                                  It were al tyme / thy tale to bigynne
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                                  ¶ Now sires / quod this Osewold the Reue
                                
                                  I pray yow alle / þat ye noght yow greue
                                
                                  Thogh I answere / and som del sette his howue
                                
                                  ffor leueful is / with force / force of showue
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                                  This dronken Myllere / hath ytoold vs heer
                                
                                  How þat / bigiled was a Carpenter
                                
                                  Perauenture in scorn / for I am oon
                                
                                  And by youre leue / I shal hym quyte anon
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                                  Right / in his cherles termes / wol I speke
                                
                                  I pray to god / his nekke mote to-breke
                                
                                  He kan wel / in myn eye / seen a stalke
                                
                                  But in his owene / he kan noght seen a balke [[No gap in the MS.]] 
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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 112
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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