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

                                
                                  Bihynde the Mille / vnder a leefsel
                                
                                  And to the hors / he gooth hym faire and wel
                                
                                  He strepeth of the bridel / right anon
                                
                                  And whan the hors was laus / he gynneth gon
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                                  Toward the fen / ther wilde mares renne
                                
                                  And forth with wehe / thurgh thikke and thenne
                                
                                  This Millere gooth ayein / no word he seyde
                                
                                  But dooth his note / and with the clerkes pleyde
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                                  Til þat hir corn / was faire and wel ygrounde
                                
                                  And whan the mele / was sakked and ybounde
                                
                                  ¶ This Iohn gooth out and fynt his hors away
                                
                                  And gan to crye / harrow and weilaway
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                                  Oure hors is lost. Alayn for goddes banes
                                
                                  Step on thy feet / com of man al atanes
                                
                                  Allas oure wardeyn / has his palfrey lorn
                                
                                  ¶ This Alayn al forgat bothe mele and corn
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                                  Al was out of his mynde / his housbondrye
                                
                                  What whilk wey is he gane / he gan to crye
                                
                                  ¶ The wyf cam lepyng Inward with a ren
                                
                                  She seyde allas / youre hors gooth to the fen
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                                  With wilde mares / as faste as he may go
                                
                                  Vnthank come on his hand / þat boond hym so
                                
                                  And he þat bettre / sholde haue knyt the reyne [folio 53b] 
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod Iohn / Aleyn for Cristes peyne
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                                  Lay doun thy swerd / and I wol myn alswa
                                
                                  I is ful wight / God waat as is a ra
                                
                                  By god hert he sal nat scape vs bathe
                                
                                  Why ne had thow / pit the capil in the lathe
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                                  Il hail / by god Alayn / thow is a fonne
                                
                                  ¶ This sely clerkes / haan ful faste yronne
                                
                                  Toward the fen / bothe Alayn and eek Iohn
                                
                                  And whan the Millere seigh / þat they were gon
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                                  He half a busshel / of hir flour hath take
                                
                                  And bad his wyf / go knede it in a cake
                                
                                  He seyde I trowe / the clerkes were aferd
                                
                                  Yet kan a Millere / maken a clerkes berd

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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 117
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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