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

                                
                                  And in þe flore wiþ nose and mouþe to-broke
                                
                                  Þei walowe as tuo pigges in a poke
                                
                                  And vpe þei gone and doune a-ȝeine anone
                                
                                  Til þat þe meller sporned att a stone
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                                  And doune he fel bakwarde vpon his wif
                                
                                  That wist no þinge of þis nice strif
                                
                                  ffor sche was fal a slepe a litel wyht
                                
                                  Wiþ Iohōn þe clerke þat waked had al þe nyhte
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                                  And wiþ þe fal oute of here slepe sche braide
                                
                                  Helpe holy cros of bromeholme sche saide
                                
                                  In manus tuas lorde to þe .I. call
                                
                                  Awake Simonde þe fende is on me fall
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                                  Myne herte is broken helpe .y. ne am bot dede
                                
                                  There one vp my wombe and vp myne hede
                                
                                  Helpe Simkyn for þe false clerkes fihte
                                
                                  Þis Iohn stert vp al so fast as euer he myhte
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                                  And grasped be þe walles to and fro
                                
                                  To finde a staf and sche sterte vp al so
                                
                                  And knewe þat estres beter þan dide þat Iohn
                                
                                  And by þe wal a staf sche fande a-none
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                                  And sawhe a litel schimeringe of a lyght
                                
                                  ffor att an hole in schone þe mone briht
                                
                                  And be þat liht sche seihe hem boþe two [folio 53a] 
                                
                                  Bot sekerly sche nyst who wa[s] who
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                                  Bot as sche sauhe a white þinge in hire eye
                                
                                  And whan sche gan þis white aspie
                                
                                  Sche wende þe clerke had wered a volupere
                                
                                  And wiþe þe staf sche drowhe ay nere and nere
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                                  And wende haue hit þis Aleine att full
                                
                                  And smote þe Mellere on þe pilled scoll
                                
                                  That downe he goþe and cried harrowe .I. deye
                                
                                  This Clerkes bet him wele and lete him lye
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                                  And greyþen þeym and toke her hors a-none
                                
                                  And eke here mele and on þeire weie þei gone
                                
                                  And att Melle ȝit þei toke her cake
                                
                                  Of halfe a busschel flowre ful wel y-bake

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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 123
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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