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

                                  
                                    AT Trompyngton / nat fer fro Cantebrygge [Narratio] 
                                  
                                    Ther gooth a brook / and ouer that a brygge
                                  
                                    Vp on the which brook / ther stant a Melle [folio 51b] 
                                  
                                    And this is verray soothe / þat I yow telle
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                                    A Millere was ther dwellyng many a day
                                  
                                    As any Pecok he was proud and gay
                                  
                                    Pipen he koude / and fisshe / and nettes beete
                                  
                                    And torne coppes / and wel wrastle and sheete
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                                    And by his belt he baar a long Panade
                                  
                                    And of a swerd / ful trenchaunt was the blade
                                  
                                    A ioly poppere / baar he in his pouche
                                  
                                    Ther was no man / for peril dorste hym touche
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                                    A Sheffeld thwitel / baar he in his hose
                                  
                                    Round was his face / and camuse was his nose
                                  
                                    As piled as an Ape / was his skulle
                                  
                                    He was a Market betere / atte fulle
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                                    Ther dorste no wight hand vp on hym legge
                                  
                                    That he ne swoor / he sholde anon abegge
                                  
                                    A theef he was for sothe / of corn and mele
                                  
                                    And þat a sleigh / and vsant for to stele
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                                    His name was hoten / deynous Symkyn
                                  
                                    A wif he hadde / comen of noble kyn
                                  
                                    The person of the toun / hir fader was
                                  
                                    With hire he yaf / ful many a panne a bras
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                                    ffor þat Symkyn / sholde in his blood allye
                                  
                                    She was yfostred / in a Nonnerye
                                  
                                    ffor Symkyn / wolde no wyf as he sayde
                                  
                                    But she were wel ynorissed and a mayde
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                                    To sauen / his estaat of yemanrye
                                  
                                    And she was proud / and peert as is a pye
                                  
                                    A ful fair sighte / was it vp on hem two
                                  
                                    On halidayes / biforn hire wolde he go

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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 113
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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