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

                                
                                  But ye be murye / I wol yeue yow myn heed
                                
                                  Hoold vp youre hondes / with outen moore speche
                                
                                  ¶ Oure conseil / was nat longe for to seche
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                                  Vs thoughte / it was nat worth / to make it wys
                                
                                  And graunted hym / with outen moore avys
                                
                                  And bade hym seye / his voirdit as hym leste
                                
                                  ¶ Lordynges quod he / now herkneth for the beste
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                                  But taketh it noght I pray yow in desdeyn
                                
                                  This is the poynt to speken short and pleyn
                                
                                  That ech of yow / to shorte with oure weye
                                
                                  In this viage / shal tellen tales tweye
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                                  To Caunterburyward / I mene it so [folio 12a] 
                                
                                  And homward / he shal tellen othere two
                                
                                  Of auentures / þat whilom haue bifalle
                                
                                  And which of yow / þat bereth hym best of alle
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                                  That is to seyn / that telleth in this cas
                                
                                  Tales of best sentence / and moost solas
                                
                                  Shal haue a Souper / at oure aller cost
                                
                                  Here in this place / sittynge by this post
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                                  Whan that we come agayn / fro Caunterbury
                                
                                  And for to make yow / the moore mury
                                
                                  I wol my self goodly wit[h] yow ryde
                                
                                  Right at myn owene cost and be youre gyde
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                                  And who so wole / my Iuggement with seye
                                
                                  Shal paye / al that we spende by the weye
                                
                                  And if ye vouche sauf / þat it be so
                                
                                  Tel me anoon / with outen wordes mo
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                                  And I wol erly / shape me ther fore
                                
                                  ¶ This thyng was graunted / and oure othes swore
                                
                                  With ful glad herte / and preyden hym also
                                
                                  That he wolde vouche sauf / for to do so
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                                  And that he wolde been / oure gouernour
                                
                                  And of oure tales / Iuge and reportour
                                
                                  And sette a souper / at a certeyn prys
                                
                                  And we wol ruled been / at his deuys
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                                  In heigh and logh / and thus by oon assent

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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 23
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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