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

                                
                                  And Iohn also how now what do ȝe heere
                                
                                  By god quod Iohn, Symond, neede has na peere
                                
                                  him falles serue himself þat has na swayn
                                
                                  Or elles he is a fon as clerkes sayn
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                                  Our mancyple as I hope wil be deed
                                
                                  Swa werkes ay þe wanges in his heed
                                
                                  And therfore I is come and eek aleyn [folio 54a] 
                                
                                  To grynde oure corn and carie it / ham ageyn
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                                  I prey ȝou speed vs in al þat ȝe may
                                
                                  It schal be doon quod Symkyn by my fay
                                
                                  what wol ȝe do whil þat it is in hande
                                
                                  By god right by þe hoper wol I stande
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                                  Quod Iohn and se how þat þe corn gas Inne
                                
                                  Ȝet sawh I neuer by my fader kynne /
                                
                                  how þat þe hoper waggis to and fra
                                
                                  Aleyn answerde / Iohn and wiltow swa
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                                  Than wol I be by-neþe by my croun
                                
                                  And se how þat þe mele fallys doun
                                
                                  In to þe trough þat schal be my desport /
                                
                                  For Ion in faith I may be of ȝour sort
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                                  I is as ille a meller as ere ȝe
                                
                                  This mellere smyleth for here nycete
                                
                                  And þought al þis is doon but for a wyle
                                
                                  They wenen þat no man may hem bigile
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                                  But by my þrift ȝet schal I blere here ye
                                
                                  For al here sleight and al here philosophie /
                                
                                  The more queynte knakkes þat þey make /
                                
                                  The more wol I stele whan I take /
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                                  In stede of mele ȝet wol I ȝeue hem bren
                                
                                  The grettest clerkes beþ not wisest men
                                
                                  As whilom to þe wolf þus spak þe mare
                                
                                  Of al hert art ne counte I nat a tare
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                                  Out at þe dore he goth ful pryuyly
                                
                                  whan þat he saugh his tyme sotyly
                                
                                  he lokeþ vp and doun til he hath founde
                                
                                  The Clerkes hors þer as it stood I-bounde /

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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 116
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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