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

                                
                                  For al his art/ ȝe lat hem go here way
                                
                                  lo wher þey goon // ȝe lat þe children play
                                
                                  They get hym nat so lightly by my croun
                                
                                  This seely clerkes ronnen vp and doun
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                                  wiþ keep / keep. stand stand Iossa ware derere
                                
                                  Ga wightly þou and I sal keep him heere /
                                
                                  But schortly til þat it was verray night /
                                
                                  They cowde nat þough þey did al here might
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                                  here capil cacche it ran away so fast /
                                
                                  Til in a diche þey caught / him atte last/
                                
                                  wery and wete as bestys in þe Reyn [folio 55a] 
                                
                                  Comth sely Iohn and wiþ him comþ aleyn
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                                  Allas quod Iohn þat day þat I was born
                                
                                  Now are we dryue til heþing and to scorn
                                
                                  Oure corn is stole men woln vs foles calle /
                                
                                  Bathe þe wardeyn and eek our felaws alle /
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                                  And namely þe myller weyloway
                                
                                  Thus pleyneth Iohn as he goþ by þe way
                                
                                  Toward þe mylle and bayard in his hand
                                
                                  The myller sittyng by þe fyr he fand
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                                  For it was night and forþer might þey nought
                                
                                  But for þe loue of god þey him bisought
                                
                                  As herberwh and of ese as for her peny
                                
                                  Þe myller sayd agayn if þer be eny
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                                  Swich as it is ȝit schul ȝe haue ȝour part
                                
                                  Myn hous is streyt. / but ȝe han lerned art/
                                
                                  Ȝe conne by argumentes make a place
                                
                                  A myle brood of twenty foote of space /
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                                  let se now if þis place may suffyse
                                
                                  Or make it rom wiþ speche as is ȝour gyse
                                
                                  Now Symond seyde þis Iohn by seynt Cuthberd
                                
                                  Ay is þou mery and þat is fair answerd
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                                  I haue herd say men suld take of twa þinges
                                
                                  Slik as he fynt / or tak slik as he bringes
                                
                                  But specially I pray þe host ful deere
                                
                                  Get vs som mete and drynk and mak vs cheere

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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 118
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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