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

                                
                                     [6-text p 578] 
                                  
                                  That he haþ drunke he spekeþ so in his nose /
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                                  And fneseþ faste and eek he haþ þe pose
                                
                                  he hath also to don more þan ynough
                                
                                  To kepe him and his capel out of þe slough
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                                  And if he falle fro his capil eft sone / [folio 257a] 
                                
                                  Thenne schulle we alle haue ynough to doone
                                
                                  In liftyng vp his heuy drunken cors
                                
                                  Telle on þin tale of him make I no fors
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                                  But ȝit maunciple in feiþ þou art to nyce
                                
                                  Thus openly to reproue him of his vice
                                
                                  Anoþer day he wole perauenture
                                
                                  Reclayme þe and bringen þe to lure
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                                  I mene he speke wole of smale þinges
                                
                                  And for to pynchen at þine rekenynges
                                
                                  That were not honeste if it come to pref
                                
                                  No quod þe maunciple þat were a gret meschief
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                                  So might he bringe me in to þe snare
                                
                                  Yet hadde I leuer payen for þe mare
                                
                                  Which he ryt on þan he schulde wiþ me stryue
                                
                                  I wol not wraþþe him so mote I þryue
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                                  þat þat I spak I seyde it in my bourde
                                
                                  And wite ȝe wel I haue heer in my gourde
                                
                                  A draught of wyn ye of a rype grape
                                
                                  And right anon ȝe schullen seen a good Iape
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                                  This Cook schal drynke þer-of if I may
                                
                                  vp peyne of my lyf he wol not say nay
                                
                                  And certeinly to tellen as it/ was
                                
                                  Of þis vessell þe Cook drank faste allas
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                                  What needeþ it he drank ynough aforn
                                
                                  And whan he hadde pouped in his horn
                                
                                  To þe maunciple he took þe gourde again
                                
                                  And of þat drynke þe cook was wonder fayn
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                                  And þanked him in such wise as he cowde
                                
                                  Then gan oure Oste to lawhe wonder lowde
                                
                                  And sayde I se wel it is necessarie
                                
                                  Where þat we goon good drink wiþ vs to carie

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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 590
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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