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

                                
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                                  With scryppe and typped staf / y-tukked hye
                                
                                  In euery hous / he gan to poure and prye
                                
                                  And beggeth Mele / and chese / or ellis corn
                                
                                  His felawe hadde a staf / typped with horn
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                                  A peyre of tables / al of yuory
                                
                                  And a poyntel / polysshed fetisly
                                
                                  And wroot the names / alwey as he stood
                                
                                  Of alle folk / that yaf hem any good
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                                  Ascaunces / that he wolde for hem preye [folio 80a] 
                                
                                  Yif vs a busshel whete / Malt or Reye
                                
                                  A goddes kechyl / or a trype of cheese
                                
                                  Or ellis what yow lyst we may nat chese
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                                  A goddes half peny / or a masse peny
                                
                                  Or yif vs of youre brawn / if ye haue eny
                                
                                  A dagon of youre Blanket leeue dame
                                
                                  Oure suster deere / lo heere I write youre name
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                                  Bacon / or boef / or swich thyng as ye fynde
                                
                                  A sturdy harlot wente ay hem bihynde
                                
                                  That was hir hostes man / and baar a sak
                                
                                  And what men yaf hem / leyde it on his bak
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                                  And whan that he was out at dore anon
                                
                                  He planed awey / the names euerichon
                                
                                  That he biforn / hadde writen in his tables
                                
                                  He serued hem / with nyfles and with fables
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                                  ¶ Nay ther thow lixt thow Somnour quod the frere
                                
                                  ¶ Pees quod oure hoost for cristes moder deere
                                
                                  Tel forth thy tale / and spare it nat at al
                                
                                  ¶ So thryue I quod this Somnour / so I shal
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                                  So longe he wente / hous by hous / til he
                                
                                  Cam til an hous / ther he was wont to be
                                
                                  Refresshed moore / than in an hundred placis
                                
                                  Syk lay the goode man / whos the place is
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                                  Bedrede vp-on a couche / lowe he lay
                                
                                  Deus hic quod he / O Thomas freend good day
                                
                                  Seyde this frere / curteisly and softe
                                
                                  Thomas quod he / god yelde yow ful ofte

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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 181
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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