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

That sche had a schippe al his selfe alone And þere-fore wost þow whatt is best to done 3544 This axeth haste and of an hastif þinge Men maie nouht preche ne maake tariynge Anone go gete vs fast in to þis inne A knedeynge trowhe or elles a kemelyne 3548 ffor iche of vs bote looke þat þei bene large In which men mow swymme as in a barge And hane their vitaile sufficeant Bot for a day fy on þe remenant 3552 The water schal aslake and gone his waie About prime vpon þe next daye Bot Robyne maie nouht witte of þis þi knaue Ne eke þe maide gill .I. maie nouht saue 3556 Ax nouht whi for þouhe þou axe me .I. wil nouȝt tellen goddes priuete Suffiseþe þe bot if þi wittes Madde To haue as grete a grace as noe Hadde 3560 Thi wif schal .I. wele saue oute of doute. Go nowe þi weie and spede þe here abowte Bot whan þou hast for hire and þe [and] me Y-geten vs þis knedeinge tubbes þre 3564 þan schalt þou honge hem in rofe fol hihe þat no man of owre pureance aspie And whan þou þus haste done as .I. haue seide And hast oure vitaile faire in hem y-leide 3568 Ande eke an ax to smyte þe corde a two Whan þat þe water comeþ þat we maie go An breke an hole on hihe vpon þe gable Vnto þe gardeine ward ouer þe stable 3572 That we mai freli passen forþe owre weye Whan þat þe grete schowre is gone awaie Th[en sch]alt þou swymme as mery .I. vnder-take As doþe þe white duke after his drake 3576 Than wil .I. clepe howe .Alison. howe Iohn Be mery for þe flode wil passe a-none
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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