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

                                
                                  And namely þer was a grete College
                                
                                  Men clepen þe solier halle att Cantabregge
                                
                                  There was hir whete and eke his malte ygrounde
                                
                                  And on a daye it happide on a stounde
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                                  Seeke laie þe Maunciple on a Maledye
                                
                                  Men wenden wisly þat he scholde deye
                                
                                  ffor whiche þis meller stale boþe mele and corne
                                
                                  An hundreþ time more þan be-forne
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                                  ffor þere be-forne he stale bot curteysly
                                
                                  Bot nowe he was a þef outrageou[s]ly
                                
                                  ffor whiche þe wardeine chidde and made fare
                                
                                  Bot þere-of sette þe Meller nouht a tare
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                                  He crakke bost and swore it was nouht soo
                                
                                  Than were þere ȝonge scolers tuo
                                
                                  That dwelten in þe hal of whiche .I. seye
                                
                                  Testif þei were and lusti for to pleie
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                                  And oonely for her mirþe and reuelrie [folio 49b] 
                                
                                  Vppon þe wardeine besely þei crie
                                
                                  To ȝeue hem leue bot a litel stounde
                                
                                  To goone to melle and seen her corne . y-grounde
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                                  And hardely þei dorst leine her neke
                                
                                  þe Meller schold nouht stele hem half a pekke
                                
                                  Of corne ne be sleihte ne be force heme reue
                                
                                  And att þe laste þe wardeine ȝaf hem leue
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                                  Iohn hight þat one . and Aleyne hiht þat oþere
                                
                                  Of one towne were þei borne þat hiht stroþere
                                
                                  ffer in þe Norþe .I. can nouht tel where
                                
                                  This Aleine Makeþ redi all his gere
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                                  And one an hors þis sak he cast anone
                                
                                  fforþe goþe Aleyne þe clerke and also Ione
                                
                                  Wiþ good swerde and wiþ bokeler be his side
                                
                                  Iohn knewe þe weie him nedeþ no gide
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                                  And att þe melne þe sakke adoune he laythe
                                
                                  Alayn spak first . al haile Simonde in fayþe
                                
                                  Howe fareþ þi faire douhter and þi wife
                                
                                  Alayne welcome quod Simkin be my life

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 115
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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