The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 557] 
                                  
                                  And if a man wol aske him priuely
                                
                                  Why þey ben cloþed so vnþriftily
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                                  Right anon þey wole rownen in his eere
                                
                                  And seye if þay aspyed were
                                
                                  Men wolde hem sle by cause of here science
                                
                                  lo þus þis folk bytrayen Innocence
                                  Line 897 
                                
                                  Passe ouer þis I go my tale vnto
                                
                                  Er þen þe pot be on þe fyr y-do
                                
                                  Of metals wiþ a certein quantite
                                
                                  My lord hem tempreþ and no man but he
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                                  Now he is gon. I dar say boldely
                                
                                  ffor as men sein he can do craftily
                                
                                  Algate I wot wel he haþ such a name
                                
                                  And ȝit ful ofte he renneþ in þe blame
                                  Line 905 
                                
                                  And wite ȝe how ful ofte it happeþ so
                                
                                  The pot tobrekeþ and far wel alle is go
                                
                                  þise metals ben of so gret violence /
                                
                                  Oure walles may not make hem resistence
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                                  But if þey were wrouȝt of lym and ston
                                
                                  þey percen so and þoruȝ þe wal þey gon
                                
                                  And some of hem synken in to þe ground
                                
                                  þus haue we lost by tymes many a pound
                                  Line 913 
                                
                                  And somme are scatered al þe floor aboute
                                
                                  Somme lepen in to þe roof wiþouten doute
                                
                                  þough þat þe fende nought in oure sighte him schewe
                                
                                  I trowe þat he wiþ vs be þat schrewe
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                                  In helle wher þat he is lord and sire /
                                
                                  Ne is þer no more woo ne angur nor Ire [folio 183a] 
                                
                                  Whan þat oure pot is broke as I haue sayd
                                
                                  Euery man chit and halt him yuel payd
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                                  Som seyde it was long on þe fyr makyng
                                
                                  Somme sayde nay it was on þe blowyng
                                
                                  þan was I fered for þat was myn office
                                
                                  Straw quod þe þridde ȝe ben lewed and nyce
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                                  It was not tempred as it oughte be /
                                
                                  Nay quod þe ferþe stynt and herkne me

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 407
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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