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

                                
                                  And we wil payen trewly att fulle
                                
                                  Wiþ empti handes men maye nouhte haukes tulle
                                
                                  Lo here owre siluere redy for to spende
                                
                                  This Meller to þe toune his douhter sende
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                                  ffor al and brede and rosted hem a goos
                                
                                  And bonde her hors it schold no more go loos
                                
                                  And in his owen chambre he maade hem a bede
                                
                                  Wiþ schetes and wiþ chalons faire y-sprade
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                                  Nouht fro his owen bedde ten fote or tuelue
                                
                                  His douhter had a bedde al be hire selue
                                
                                  Riht in þe same chambre by. and bye
                                
                                  It myht be no bet and cause whie
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                                  Ther was no romer herboruhe in þe place
                                
                                  Thei soupen and þei speken hem to solace
                                
                                  And drenken euer stronge ale att þe beste
                                
                                  Aboute mydnyhte wente þei to reste
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                                  Wele haþe þis Mellere vernysshed his hede
                                
                                  fful pale he was for-dronken and nouht rede
                                
                                  He ȝexeþ and he spekeþ þoruhe þe nose
                                
                                  As he war on þe quakke or one þe pose
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                                  To bede he goþe and wiþ him goþe his wif
                                
                                  As any Iay he lyht was and Iolif
                                
                                  So was hir Ioly whistel wele y-wette
                                
                                  The crade att þe bedes feete is sette
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                                  To rokken and to ȝeue þe childe to souke
                                
                                  And whan þat dronken was al in þe crouke
                                
                                  To bedde wente þe douhter riht anone
                                
                                  To bedde goþe Aleine and also Iohn
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                                  There nas no more þem neded no dwale
                                
                                  This Meller haþe so wisly bibbed ale
                                
                                  That as an hors he snowrteþ in his slepe
                                
                                  Ne of his taile behinde he toke no kepe
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                                  His wif bare him a burdon a ful stronge
                                
                                  Men myhten here routeynge halfe a forlonge
                                
                                  The wenche routeþe eke par comopaignye
                                
                                  Aleyne þe clerke þat herde þis melodye

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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 119
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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