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

                                
                                  My wit is short ye may wel vnderstonde
                                
                                  ¶ Greet cheere / made oure hoost vs euerichon
                                
                                  And to the souper / sette he vs anon
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                                  He serued vs / with vitaille / at the beste
                                
                                  Strong was the wyn / and wel to drynke vs leste
                                
                                  A semely man / oure hoost was with alle
                                
                                  ffor to been / a Marchal in an halle
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                                  A large man he was / with eyen stepe [folio 11b] 
                                
                                  A fairer burgeys / was ther noon in Chepe
                                
                                  Boold of his speche / and wys / and well ytaught
                                
                                  And of manhode / hym lakked right naught
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                                  Eke ther to / he was right a murye man
                                
                                  And after souper / pleyen he bigan
                                
                                  And spak of murthe / amonges othere thynges
                                
                                  Whan þat we hadde maad oure rekenynges
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                                  And seyde thus / now lordes trewely
                                
                                  Ye been to me / right wel come hertely
                                
                                  ffor by my trouthe / if þat I shal nat lye
                                
                                  I seigh noght this yeer / so mury a compaignye
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                                  At ones in this herberwe / as is now
                                
                                  ffayn wolde I doon yow myrthe / wiste I how
                                
                                  And of a myrthe / I am right now bithoght
                                
                                  To doon yow ese / and it shal coste noght
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                                  ¶ Ye goon to Caunterbury / god yow spede
                                
                                  The blisful Martir / quyte yow youre mede
                                
                                  And wel I woot as ye goon by the weye
                                
                                  Ye shapen yow / to talen and to pleye
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                                  ffor trewely / confort / ne murthe is noon
                                
                                  To ryde by the weye / domb as stoon
                                
                                  And ther fore / wol I maken yow desport
                                
                                  As I seyde erst and doon yow som confort
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                                  And if yow liketh alle / by oon assent
                                
                                  ffor to stonden / at my Iuggement
                                
                                  And for to werken / as I shal yow seye
                                
                                  Tomorwe / whan ye ryden by the weye
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                                  Now by my fader soule / þat is deed

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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 22
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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