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

                                
                                  And nameliche / ther was a greet Collegge
                                
                                  Men clepeth / the soler halle of Cantebregge
                                
                                  Ther was hir whete / and eek hir malt ygrounde
                                
                                  And on a day / it happed in a stounde
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                                  Syk was this maunciple / on a maladie
                                
                                  Men wenden wisly / þat he sholde dye
                                
                                  ffor which this Millere / stal bothe mele and corn
                                
                                  An hondred tyme / moore than biforn
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                                  ffor ther biforn / he stal but curteisly
                                
                                  But now / he was a theef outrageously
                                
                                  ffor which the wardeyn / chidde and made fare
                                
                                  But ther-of / sette the Millere noght a tare
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                                  He craked boost / and swoor it was noght so
                                
                                  Thanne were ther / yonge poure scolers two
                                
                                  That dwelten in the halle / of which I seye [folio 52b] 
                                
                                  Testyf they were / and lusty for to pleye
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                                  And oonly / for hir myrthe and reuerye
                                
                                  Vp on the wardeyn / bisily they crye
                                
                                  To yeue hem leue / but a litel stounde
                                
                                  To go to Mille / and seen hir corn ygrounde
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                                  And hardily / they dorste leye hir nekke
                                
                                  The Millere / sholde noght stelen hem half a pekke
                                
                                  Of corn by sleighte / ne by force hem reue
                                
                                  And atte laste / the wardeyn yaf hem leue
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                                  Iohn highte that oon / and Aleyn highte that oother
                                
                                  Of oon town were they born / þat highte Strother
                                
                                  ffer in the North / I kan noght telle where
                                
                                  This Aleyn / maketh redy al his gere
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                                  And on an hors / the sak he caste anon
                                
                                  fforth gooth Aleyn the clerk/. and also Iohn
                                
                                  With good swerd / and with bokeler by his syde
                                
                                  Iohn knew the wey / hym neded no gyde
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                                  And at the Mille / the sak adoun he layth
                                
                                  ¶ Aleyn spak first al hayl Symkyn in fayth
                                
                                  How fares thy faire doghter / and thy wyf
                                
                                  ¶ Aleyn wel come / quod Symkyn by my lyf

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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 115
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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