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

                                
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                                  If that thee happed to come in oure shire [folio 75b] 
                                
                                  Al shal be thyn / right as thow wolt desire
                                
                                  ¶ Graunt mercy quod this Somnour / by my feith
                                
                                  Euerich in ootheres hond / his trouthe leyth
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                                  ffor to be sworn bretheren / til they deye
                                
                                  In daliaunce / they ryden forth and pleye
                                
                                  ¶ This Somnour / which þat was / as ful of Iangles
                                
                                  As ful of venym / been thise waryangles
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                                  And euere enqueryng vp-on euery thyng
                                
                                  Brother quod he / where is now youre dwellyng
                                
                                  Another day / if þat I sholde yow seche
                                
                                  This yeman hym answerde / in softe speche
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                                  ¶ Brother quod he / fer in the North contree
                                
                                  Where as I hope / som tyme I shal thee see
                                
                                  Er we departe / I shal thee so wel wisse
                                
                                  That of myn hous / ne shaltow neuere mysse
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                                  ¶ Now brother quod this Somnour I yow preye
                                
                                  Teche me / whil þat we ryden by the weye
                                
                                  Syn þat ye been a Baillyf / as am I
                                
                                  Som subtiltee / and tel me feithfully
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                                  In myn office / how I may moost wynne
                                
                                  And spareth nat for conscience ne synne
                                
                                  But as my brother / tel me how do ye
                                
                                  ¶ Now by my trouthe / brother deere / seyde he
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                                  As I shal tellen thee / a feithful tale
                                
                                  My wages been / ful streyte / and ful smale
                                
                                  My lord is hard to me / and daungerous
                                
                                  And myn office / is ful laborous
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                                  And therfore / by extorcions I lyue
                                
                                  ffor sothe I take / al that men wol me yeue
                                
                                  Algate / by sleighte / or by violence
                                
                                  ffro yeer to yeer / I wynne al my dispence
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                                  I kan no bettre tellen / feithfully
                                
                                  ¶ Now certes quod this Somnour / so fare I
                                
                                  I spare nat to taken / god it woot
                                
                                  But it be to heuy / or to hoot

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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 170
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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