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

                                
                                  ffor al his art ye lat hem goon hir weye
                                
                                  Lo where he gooth / ye lat the children pleye
                                
                                  They gete hym noght so lightly / by my croun
                                
                                  ¶ Thise sely clerkes / rennen vp and doun
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                                  With keep / keep / stand / stand / Iossa warderere
                                
                                  Ga whistle thow / and I sal kepe hym heere
                                
                                  But shortly / til þat it was verray nyght
                                
                                  They koude noght thogh they dide al hir myght
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                                  Hir capyl cacche / he ran alwey so faste
                                
                                  Til in a dych / they caughte hym at the laste
                                
                                  ¶ Wery and weet as beest is in the reyn
                                
                                  Comth sely Iohn / and with hym comth Aleyn
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                                  Allas quod Iohn / the day þat I was born
                                
                                  Now ar we dryuen / til hethyng and til scorn
                                
                                  Oure corn is stole / men wil vs foolis calle
                                
                                  Bothe the wardeyn / and oure felawes alle
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                                  And namely the Millere / weilawey
                                
                                  ¶ Thus pleyneth Iohn / as he gooth by the wey
                                
                                  Toward the Mille / and Bayard in his hond
                                
                                  The Millere / sittyng by the fyr he fond
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                                  ffor it was nyght and ferther myghte they noght
                                
                                  But for the loue of god / they hym bisoght
                                
                                  Of herberwe and of ese / as for hir peny
                                
                                  ¶ The Millere seide agayn / if ther be eny
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                                  Swich as it is / yet shal ye haue youre part
                                
                                  Myn hous is streyt but ye han lerned art
                                
                                  Ye kan by argumentz / make a place [folio 54a] 
                                
                                  A myle brood / of twenty foot of space
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                                  Lat se now / if this place may suffise
                                
                                  Or make it rowm with speche / as is youre gyse
                                
                                  ¶ Now Symond seyde this Iohn / by seint Cutberd
                                
                                  Ay is thou myrie / and that is faire answerd
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                                  I haue herd seye / men sal tak of twa thynges
                                
                                  Swilk as he fyndes / or tak swilk as he brynges
                                
                                  But specialy / I pray thee hoost deere
                                
                                  Get vs som mete and drynke / and make vs cheere

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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 118
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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