The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  That sche hadde a schip hir self allone
                                
                                  And þerfore wostow what is best to doone /
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                                  This axeþ hast and of an hasty þing
                                
                                  Men may nought preche or make taryyng
                                
                                  Anon go gete vs fast in to þis In
                                
                                  A knedyng trowh or elles a kemelyn
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                                  For ech of vs but loke þat þey be large
                                
                                  In which þat we may rowe as in a barge
                                
                                  And haue þer In vitaille suffisant
                                
                                  But for o day, fy on þe remenant
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                                  The water schal aslake and gon away
                                
                                  Aboute prime vppon þe nexte day
                                
                                  But Robyn may not wite of þis þy knaue
                                
                                  Ne ek þy mayde Gille I may not saue
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                                  Aske nought why for þough þou aske me
                                
                                  I wol nat tellen goddes pryuete
                                
                                  Sufficeth þe but if þat þy witt/ madde
                                
                                  To haue as gret a grace as noe hadde /
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                                  Thy wyf schal I wel sauen out of doute /
                                
                                  Go now þy wey and speed þe heer aboute
                                
                                  And whan þou hast for hir and þe and me /
                                
                                  I-goten vs þis knedyng tubbes þre
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                                  Than schalt þou hange hem in þe roof ful hie
                                
                                  That no man of oure purueaunce aspye
                                
                                  And whan þou þus hast doon as I haue seyd
                                
                                  And hast our vitaille faire in hem I-leyd
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                                  And eek an ax to smyte þe corde a-two
                                
                                  whan þat þe water comeþ þat we may goo
                                
                                  And breke an hole an hye vpon þe gable
                                
                                  In to þe gardynward ouer þe stable /
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                                  That we may frely passen forþ oure way
                                
                                  whan þat þe grete schour is gon away
                                
                                  Than schaltow swymme as mery I vndertake
                                
                                  As doth þe white doke aftir hir drake [folio 48a] 
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                                  Than wol I clepe how alisoun how Ion.
                                
                                  [Beoth merye for the flood passeþ a-non] [[in a later hand]]

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 102
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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