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

                                
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                                  Now ete youre mete / and lat the cherl go pleye
                                
                                  Lat hym go hange hym self/ a deuel weye [[The Solution of the "Probleme" by the Lord's Squire|and-Carver. No break in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  ¶ Now stood / the lordes Squyer at the boord
                                
                                  That carf his mete / and herde word by woord
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                                  Of alle thyng of which I haue yow sayd
                                
                                  ¶ My lord quod he / be ye nat yuele apayd
                                
                                  I koude telle / for a gowne clooth
                                
                                  To yow sire frere / so ye be nat wrooth
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                                  How that this fart sholde euene ydeled be
                                
                                  Among youre Couent if it liked me
                                
                                  ¶ Tel quod the lord / and thow shalt haue anon
                                
                                  A gowne clooth / by god and by Seint Iohn
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                                  ¶ My lord quod he / whan that the weder is fair
                                
                                  With-outen wynd / or perturbynge of Air
                                
                                  Lat brynge a Cartwheel / heere in-to this halle
                                
                                  But looke that it haue / his spokes alle
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                                  Twelf spokes / hath a Cartwheel comunly
                                
                                  And brynge me thanne twelf freres / woot ye why
                                
                                  For thrittene / is a Couent / as I gesse
                                
                                  Youre confessour heere / for his worthynesse
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                                  Shal parfourne vp / the nombre of this Couent
                                
                                  Thanne shal they knele adown / by oon assent
                                
                                  And to euery spokes ende / in this manere
                                
                                  fful sadly / leye his nose / shal a frere
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                                  Youre noble Confessour / ther god hym saue [folio 86b] 
                                
                                  Shal holde his nose / vp right vnder the Naue
                                
                                  Thanne shal this cherl / with baly / stif and toght
                                
                                  As any tabour / hider been ybroght
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                                  And sette hym on the wheel / right of this Cart
                                
                                  Vp on the Naue / and make hym lete a fart
                                
                                  And ye shal seen / on peril of my lyf
                                
                                  By proue / which that is demonstratyf

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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 195
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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