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

                                
                                  And on the floor / with nose and mouth tobroke
                                
                                  They walwen / as doon two pigges in a poke
                                
                                  And vp they goon / and doun agayn anoon
                                
                                  Til þat the Millere / sporned on a stoon
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                                  And doun he fil / bakward vp on his wyf
                                
                                  That wiste no thyng of this nyce stryf
                                
                                  ffor she was falle aslepe / a litel wight [folio 56a] 
                                
                                  With Iohn the clerk / that waked hadde al nyght
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                                  And with the fal / out of hir sleepe she brayde
                                
                                  Help holy cros of Bromholm / she sayde
                                
                                  In manus tuas / lord to thee I calle
                                
                                  Awake Symond / the feend is on me falle
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                                  Myn herte is broken / help I nam but ded
                                
                                  Ther lyth oon vp on my wombe / and vp myn hed
                                
                                  Help Symkyn / for the false clerkes fighte
                                
                                  ¶ This Iohn sterte vp / as faste as euere he myghte
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                                  And graspeth by the walles / to and fro
                                
                                  To fynde a staf / and she sterte vp also
                                
                                  And knew the estres / bet than dide this Iohn
                                
                                  And by the wal / a staf she foond anon
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                                  And saugh / a litel shymeryng of a light
                                
                                  ffor at an hole / in shoon the moone bright
                                
                                  And by that light she saugh hem bothe two
                                
                                  But sikerly / she nyste who was who
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                                  But as she saugh / a whit thyng in hir Iye
                                
                                  And whan she gan / this white thyng espye
                                
                                  She wende the clerk hadde wered a voluper
                                
                                  And with the staf / she drow ay ner and ner
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                                  And wende han hit / this Aleyn atte fulle
                                
                                  And smoot the Millere / on the piled skulle
                                
                                  That doun he gooth / and cryde harrow I dye
                                
                                  Thise clerkes bette hym wel / and lete hym lye
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                                  And greithen hem / and tooke hir hors anon
                                
                                  And eek hir mele / and on hir wey they gon
                                
                                  And at the Mille / yet they toke hir cake
                                
                                  Of half a busshel flour / ful wel ybake

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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 123
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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