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

                                
                                     [6-text p 577] 
                                  
                                  Wele quod þe Manciple if it maie done ese
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                                  To þe sire koke; & to no wight displese
                                
                                  Whicho þat here rideþ in þis compaignye
                                
                                  And þat oure Oste wil of his curtesye
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                                  .I. wil as nowe excuse þe of þin tale
                                
                                  For in good feiþe þi vesage is ful pale
                                
                                  þin eyȝen dasoweþe soþely as me þenkeþ
                                
                                  And wele .I. wote þi breþe foule stinkeþ
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                                  þat scheweþ wele þou ert nouht wele disposed
                                
                                  Of me certeyne þou schalt not bene yglosed
                                
                                  See howe goþe þis dronken wight
                                
                                  As þouhe he wold vs swelowe anone riht
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                                  Halde close þi mouþe man be þi fader kinne
                                
                                  The deuel of hel sett his fote þere inne
                                
                                  This cursede breþe wil enfect us al
                                
                                  Fy stynkinge swyne fy foule motte þe fall
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                                  Takeþ hede sire of þis lusty manne
                                
                                  Now swete sire wil ȝe iust att þe fanne
                                
                                  Ther-to me þinkeþ ȝe be wel yschape
                                
                                  I trowe þat ȝe haue dronken wyne ape
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                                  And þat is whan men pley wiþ a strawe
                                
                                  And wiþ þis speke þe koce wex al wrawe
                                
                                  And on þe Manciple gan he nodde fast
                                
                                  For lak of speche & doune þe hors him cast
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                                  Where as he laye til men him vp toke
                                
                                  This was þe faire cheuache of a coke
                                
                                  Alas he ne hadd hold him be his ladel
                                
                                  And er þat he aȝeine were in his sadel
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                                  þere was grete schoueinge to & fro
                                
                                  To lift him vp & muche care & woo
                                
                                  So vnwelde was þi cely palled gost
                                
                                  And to þe Mancyple þan spak oure Ost
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                                  Be cause þat drinke haþe dominacione [folio 226a] 
                                
                                  Vpon þis man be my saluacione
                                
                                  .I. trowe fill lewdly he wolde tel his tale
                                
                                  For were it wyne or olde or moyste ale

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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 591
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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