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

                                
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                                  Thee thar namore / as in this cas trauaille
                                
                                  I am thy freend / ther I thee may auaille
                                
                                  Certeyn / he knew of bryberyes mo
                                
                                  Than possible is / to telle in yeres two
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                                  ffor in this world / nys dogge for the bowe
                                
                                  That kan an hurt deer / from an hool knowe
                                
                                  Bet than this Somnour / knewe a sly lecchour
                                
                                  Or an Auouter / or a paramour
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                                  And for that was / the fruyt of al his rente
                                
                                  Ther-fore on it he sette al his entente
                                
                                  ¶ And so bifel / that ones on a day
                                
                                  This Somnour / euere waityng on his pray
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                                  ffor to somne an old wydewe / a Ribibe
                                
                                  ffeynynge a cause / for he wolde brybe
                                
                                  Happed / that he say / bifore hym ryde
                                
                                  A gay yeman / vnder a fforest syde
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                                  A bowe he bar / and arwes brighte & kene
                                
                                  He hadde vp-on / a courtepy of grene
                                
                                  An hat vp-on his heed / with frenges blake
                                
                                  ¶ Sire quod this Somnour / hayl / and wel atake
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                                  ¶ Wel come quod he / and euery good felawe
                                
                                  Where ridestow / vnder this grene shawe
                                
                                  Seyde this yeman / wiltow fer to day
                                
                                  ¶ This Somnour hym answerde / and seyde nay
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                                  Here faste by quod he / is myn entente
                                
                                  To ryden / for to reysen vp a rente
                                
                                  That longeth / to my lordes duetee
                                
                                  ¶ Artow thanne a Bailly? / ye quod he
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                                  He dorste nat for verray filthe and shame
                                
                                  Seye þat he was a Somnour / for the name
                                
                                  ¶ Depardieux quod this yeman / deere brother
                                
                                  Thow art a bailly / and I am another
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                                  I am vnknowen / as in this contree
                                
                                  Of thyn aqueyntance / I wolde praye thee
                                
                                  And eek of bretherhede / if þat yow leste
                                
                                  I haue gold / and siluer / in my cheste

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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 169
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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