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

                                
                                  And we wol payen / trewely atte fulle
                                
                                  With empty hand / men may none haukes tulle
                                
                                  Lo heere oure siluer / redy for to spende
                                
                                  ¶ This Millere in to town / his doghter sende
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                                  ffor ale and breed / and rosted hem a goos
                                
                                  And boond hir hors / it sholde namoore go loos
                                
                                  And in his owene chambre / hem made a bed
                                
                                  With shetes and with chalons / faire yspred
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                                  Noght from his owene bed / but ten foot or twelue
                                
                                  His doghter hadde a bed / al by hir selue
                                
                                  Right in the same chambre by and by
                                
                                  It myghte be no bet and cause why
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                                  Ther was no rowmer herberwe / in the place
                                
                                  They soupen / and they speken / hem to solace
                                
                                  And drynken euere stroong ale / at the beste
                                
                                  Aboute mydnyght / wente they to reste
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                                  Wel hath this Millere / vernysshed his heed
                                
                                  fful pale he was for-dronke / and noght reed
                                
                                  He yexeth / and he speketh thurgh the nose
                                
                                  As he were / on the quakke / or on the pose
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                                  To bedde he goth / and with hym goth his wyf
                                
                                  As any Iay / she light was and iolyf
                                
                                  So was hir ioly whistle / wel ywet
                                
                                  The Cradel / at hir beddes feet is set
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                                  To rokken / and to yeue the child to sowke
                                
                                  And whan þat dronken / al was in the Crowke
                                
                                  To bedde wente / the doghter right anon
                                
                                  To bedde gooth Aleyn / and also Iohn
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                                  Ther nas namoore / hem neded no dwale
                                
                                  This Millere / hath so wisly bibbed ale
                                
                                  That as an hors / he snorteth in his sleepe [folio 54b] 
                                
                                  Ne of his tayl bihynde / he took no keepe
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                                  His wyf bar hym / a burdon / a ful strong
                                
                                  Men myghten hir routyng heren a furlong
                                
                                  The wenche / routeth eek par compaignye
                                
                                  ¶ Aleyn the clerc that herde this melodye

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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 119
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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