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

                                
                                  Bot or þou go oo þinge .I. will þe telle
                                
                                  Whan þat þou wendest homwarde be þe melle
                                
                                  Riht att þe entre of þe dore be-hinde
                                
                                  Thou schalt a cake of halfe a buschell finde
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                                  That was ymaked of þin owen mele
                                
                                  Whiche þat .I. helpe my sire for to stele
                                
                                  And goode lemman and god þe saue and kepe
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde almost he gan to wepe
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                                  Aleine vprist and þouht or þat.It dawe
                                
                                  .I. wil go crepen inne be my felawe
                                
                                  And fonde þe cradel wiþ his honde anone
                                
                                  Be god þouht [he] al wrange .I. haue mys gone
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                                  Myne hede is toty of my swynke to nyhte
                                
                                  þat makeþ me þat .I. go nouht arihte
                                
                                  .I. wote wele be þe cradel .I. haue mys go
                                
                                  Here liþe þe mellere and his wif al so
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                                  And forþe he goþe a twenty deuel weye [folio 52b] 
                                
                                  Vnto þe bedde þere as þe Meller leye
                                
                                  He wende haue cropen be his felawe Iohōn
                                
                                  And by þe Meller ine he crape a-none
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                                  And kauht him be þe nekke and soft he spakke
                                
                                  He seide þou Iohn þou swineshede awake
                                
                                  ffor cristes soule and here a noble game
                                
                                  ffor [by] þat lorde þat called is seinte Iame
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                                  As .I. haue þries in þis schorte nyhte
                                
                                  Swyuede þe meller douhter bolt vpriht
                                
                                  While þou hast as a cowarde bene agaste
                                
                                  Ȝe false harlot quod Meller haste
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                                  A false traytur false traitur quod he
                                
                                  Thou schal be dede be goddes dignite
                                
                                  Who dorste be so bolde to disparage
                                
                                  My douhter þat is comen of suche lignage
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                                  ¶ And be þrote bolle he cauht Aleyne
                                
                                  And he hinte him dispitously a-ȝeine
                                
                                  And one þe nose he smote him wiþ his fiste
                                
                                  Doune run þe blode streme vpon his briste

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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 122
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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