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

                                
                                     [6-text p 578] 
                                  
                                  That he haþ dronke he spekeþ so in his nose
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                                  And fneseþ fast & eke he haþe þe pose
                                
                                  He also to done more þan .I.-nouhe
                                
                                  To kepen him & his capel oute of þe slowhe
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                                  And if he fal fro his Capel eft sone
                                
                                  Þān schal we al haue . ynouhe to done
                                
                                  In liftynge vp his hevy dronken cors
                                
                                  Tel on þi tale . of him maake .I. no force
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                                  Bot ȝitte Maunciple in feiþe þou ert to nyce
                                
                                  Thus openly to reproue him of his vice
                                
                                  Anoþere daie he wil peraduenture
                                
                                  Recleyme þe & bringe þe to luyre
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                                  .I. mene he speke will of smale þinges
                                
                                  And for to speke att þine rekenynges
                                
                                  þat were nouht honest þouhe it cam to preue
                                
                                  No quod þe Manciple þat were a grete meschef
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                                  So myht he bringe me in to þe snare
                                
                                  Ȝit hadde I leuer pay . for þe Mare
                                
                                  Whiche he rideþ on þan he schold wiþ me strive
                                
                                  .I. wil nouht wreþþe him so mot .I. þriue
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                                  þat att .I. spak .I. saide it in my bourde
                                
                                  And wyte ȝe wele þat .I. haue here in a gourde
                                
                                  A drauht of wyne . ȝe of a rype grape
                                
                                  And riht anone ȝe scholne se a good Iape
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                                  This koce schal drink þer-of if .I. maye
                                
                                  Vpon peine of my lif he wil not sey neye
                                
                                  And certanly to tellen as it was
                                
                                  Of þis vessel þe koce drank fast alas
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                                  Whate nedeþ it he dranke . ynowhe aforne
                                
                                  And whan he had poped in his horne
                                
                                  And to þe manciple he toke þe gourde aȝeine
                                
                                  And of þat drink þe koc was wonder feyne
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                                  And þonked him in suche wise as he couþe
                                
                                  þan gan oure oste waxen wonder louþe
                                
                                  And seide .I. see wele it is necessarie
                                
                                  Wher þat we gone drinke wiþ vs to carye

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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 592
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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