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

                                
                                  He poukede Iohōn and seide slepest þou
                                
                                  Herdest þou euer slyke a sange or nowe
                                
                                  Lo swilke a compline es be-tuene hem alle.
                                
                                  A wilde fire on þeire bodies falle
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                                  Wha herde euere slyke a ferly þinge [folio 51b] 
                                
                                  Ȝe þei schal haue þe floure of il endynge
                                
                                  ¶ This lange myhte þer sal .I. haue na reste
                                
                                  Bot ȝit na force al sal be for þe beste
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                                  ffor Iohn seide he as euere mote .I. þriue
                                
                                  If þat .I. maye þe wenche wil .I. swyue
                                
                                  Some esement haþ þe lawe schapen vs
                                
                                  ffor Iohn þere is a lawe þat seiþe þus
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                                  þat if a man in o pointe be agreuede
                                
                                  þat in a-noþer he sal be releuede
                                
                                  Oure corne is stollen soþely it is no naye
                                
                                  And we haue hade an yuel fitte to daye
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                                  And seen .I. schal haue none amendement
                                
                                  Ageyn my losse .I. wil haue esement
                                
                                  Be goddes saule it sal nane oþere be
                                
                                  This Iohn Ansewerde Aleine avise þe
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                                  The Meller is a parlous man he seide
                                
                                  And if þat he oute of his slepe a-breide
                                
                                  He myhte done vs baþe a velanye
                                
                                  Aleyne ansewarde .I. count him nat a flye
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                                  And vpe he reste and be þe wenche he crepte
                                
                                  þis wenche lay vpriht and fast sche slepte
                                
                                  Tyl he so nyhe was or sche myht spye
                                
                                  That it hadde bene to late for to crie
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                                  And schortly for to seye þei were att one
                                
                                  Now plaie Aleine for .I. wil speke of Iohne
                                
                                  This Iohn liþe still a furlonge waie or two
                                
                                  And to him selfe he makeþ reuþe and woo
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                                  Alas quod he þis is a wikked Iape
                                
                                  Now may .I. saie þat .I. es bot an ape
                                
                                  ȝit haþe my felawe sum what for his harme
                                
                                  He haþe þe Mellers douhter in his arme

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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 120
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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