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

                                
                                  We bene accorded to þe Iuggement
                                
                                  And þer-vpon þe wyne was fett anone
                                
                                  We dronken and to rest went ichone
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                                  Wiþ-owten any longer taryinge
                                
                                  An morwe whan þe daie gan to springe
                                
                                  Vp roos owre ost and was owre alder cok
                                
                                  And gederd vs to-geder in a floke
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                                  And forþe we reden a litel mor þan pas
                                
                                  Vnto [þe] wateringe of seint Thomas
                                
                                  And þere owre oste gan his hors areste
                                
                                  And seide lordes herkeneþ if ȝowe leste
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                                  Ȝe wote ȝowre forward. and .I. it ȝowe recorde
                                
                                  If þat Euynsonge. and Morwsonge accorde
                                
                                  Lat se nowe who schal tel þe first tale
                                
                                  As euer mot .I. drinke wine or ale
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                                  Who so be rebel to my Iuggement
                                
                                  Schal paie for al þat be þe waie is spent
                                
                                  Now draweþ cut or þat we ferþer wynne
                                
                                  Whiche þat haþe þe schortest schal be-ginne
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                                  ¶ Sir knyht quod he my maister and my lorde
                                
                                  Now draweþ Cut for þat is Myne accorde
                                
                                  Commeþ nere quod he Mi ladi prioresse
                                
                                  And ȝe sire clerke lat be ȝowre schamefastnesse
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                                  Ne studiethe nowht leie honde to euery man [folio 12a] 
                                
                                  Anone to drawe euery wight began
                                
                                  And schortly for to tellen riht as it was
                                
                                  Were it be aventure or sort or cas
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                                  The soþe is þis þe Cut fel on þe knyht
                                
                                  Of whiche ful bliþe and glad was euery whit
                                
                                  And tellen he most his tale as it was resōn
                                
                                  Bi forward and be composiciōn.
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                                  As ȝe haue herde what nedeþ wordes moo
                                
                                  And whan þis good man sawhe þat it was so
                                
                                  As he þat wise was and obedient
                                
                                  To kepen his forward be his fre assent
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                                  He seide seþþe þat .I. schal beginne þe game

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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 24
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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