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

                                
                                  Be-hinde þe Mille vnder a leuesel
                                
                                  And to þe hors he goþ him feire and wel
                                
                                  He strepeþ of þe bridel riht a-none
                                
                                  Whan þe hor[s] was laus he ginneþ to gone
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                                  Toward þe fenne þere wilde mares renne
                                
                                  And forþe wiþe wehe þoruhe þikke and þoruh þenne
                                
                                  This mellere goþe aȝein no worde he seide
                                
                                  Bot doþ his note and wiþ his clerkes pleide
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                                  Til þat her corne was faire and wele ygrounde
                                
                                  And whan þe mele is sakked and ybounde
                                
                                  This Iohn goþe owte and findeþ his hors aweie
                                
                                  And gan to crie harrowe and walaweie
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                                  Oure hors is loste Aleine for goddes banes
                                
                                  Steppe on þi fete man come of al att anes
                                
                                  Alas oure wardeine has his palfraie lorne
                                
                                  This Aleine al for-ȝat boþe mele and corne
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                                  Al was owte of his mynde his hosbandrie
                                
                                  What whilke waye es he gane he gan to crye
                                
                                  The wife cam lepeinge inwarde att a renne
                                
                                  Sche seide Alas ȝoure hors goþe to þe fenne
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                                  Wiþ wilde mares as faste as he may go
                                
                                  Vnþanke com on his hand þan bonde him so
                                
                                  And he þat better scholde haue knet þe Reyne
                                
                                  Allas quod Iohn Aleine for cristes peine
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                                  Lay doune þi swerde . and I wil myne alswa
                                
                                  .I. es ful swift god wate as is a ra
                                
                                  Be goddes hert he sal not scape vs baþe
                                
                                  Whi ne hadde þou putte þe capel in þe laþe
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                                  Il a hayle be god aleyne þou es a grete fonne [folio 50b] 
                                
                                  Thes sely Clerkes han ful fast ronne
                                
                                  To-warde þe fenn bothen Aleyne and eke Iohn
                                
                                  And whan þe Meller sihe þat þei were gone
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                                  He half a busschel of her flour haþe take
                                
                                  And bad his wife go knede it in a kake
                                
                                  And seide .I. trowe þe clerkes weren aferd
                                
                                  ȝit can a meller Make a clerkes berde

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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 117
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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