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

                                
                                  And namely þer was a gret Collegge
                                
                                  Men clepe it þe Soler hall of Cantebregge
                                
                                  Ther was here whete and eek here malt I-grounde /
                                
                                  And on a day it happed on a stounde /
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                                  Syk lay þe mauncyple on a maledye [folio 53b] 
                                
                                  Men wenden wisly þat he schulde dye
                                
                                  For which þis meller stal both mele & corn
                                
                                  A þousend part more þan byforn
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                                  For þer biforn he stal but curteysly
                                
                                  But now he is a þeef outrageously
                                
                                  For which þe wardeyn chidde and made fare
                                
                                  But ther of sette þe meller not a tare
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                                  he crakked boost and swor it was nat so
                                
                                  Thanne weren þere poore scoleres tuo
                                
                                  That dwelten in þe halle of which I seye
                                
                                  Testyf þey were and lusty for to pleye
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                                  And oonly for here mirþe and reuelrye [[the l is later]] 
                                
                                  Vppon þe wardeyn bysily þey crye
                                
                                  To ȝeue hem leue but a litel stounde /
                                
                                  To go to melle and see here corn I-grounde
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                                  And hardily þey dursten ley here nekke /
                                
                                  The meller schuld nat stel hem half a pekke
                                
                                  Of corn by sleighte ne by force hem reue
                                
                                  And atte last þe wardeyn ȝaf hem leue
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                                  Iohn hight þat oon and Alayn hight þat oþer
                                
                                  Of o toun were þey born þat highte Strothir /
                                
                                  Fer in þe north I can nat telle where /
                                
                                  This aleyn makeþ redy al his gere
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                                  And on an hors þe sak he cast anoon
                                
                                  Forþ goþ aleyn þe clerk and also Ion
                                
                                  wiþ good swerd and wiþ bocler by her side
                                
                                  Iohn knew þe way þat hem needith no gyde /
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                                  And at þe mylle þe sak a-doun he layth
                                
                                  Alayn spak first al heil Symond in faith
                                
                                  how fares þy faire doughter and þy wyf
                                
                                  aleyn welcome quod Symond by my lyf

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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 115
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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