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

                                
                                  And we wol paye trewly at þe fulle
                                
                                  wiþ empty hand men may na hawkes tulle
                                
                                  Lo heer our siluer redy for to spende
                                
                                  This meller in to toun his doughter sende
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                                  For ale and breed and rosted hem a goos
                                
                                  And band her hors he schold no more go loos
                                
                                  And in his owne chambir hem made a bed
                                
                                  with schetys and with chalouns fair I-spred
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                                  Nat from his owen bed ten foot or twelue /
                                
                                  his doughter had a bed al by hir selue
                                
                                  Right in þe same chambre by and by
                                
                                  Hit mighte be no bet and cause why /
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                                  Ther was no rommer herberw in þe place [folio 55b] 
                                
                                  They sowpen and þey speke hem to solace
                                
                                  And dronken euer strong ale atte beste
                                
                                  Aboute mydnyght wente þey to reste
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                                  wel haþ þe myller vernysshed his heed
                                
                                  Ful pale he was for dronken and nat reed
                                
                                  he ȝoxeth and he spekeþ þurgh þe nose /
                                
                                  As he were on þe quakke or on þe pose /
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                                  To bed he goþ and wiþ him goþ his wyf
                                
                                  As eny Iay sche light was and iolyf
                                
                                  So was his ioly whistel wel y-wet
                                
                                  The cradil at hire beddes feet is set
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                                  To rokken and to ȝiue þe child to souke /
                                
                                  And whan þat dronken was al in þe crouke
                                
                                  To bedde went the douȝter right anon
                                
                                  To bedde goþ aleyn and also Ion
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                                  Ther nas no more him needed no dwale
                                
                                  This meller haþ so wysly bibbed ale /
                                
                                  That as an hors he snortith in his sleep
                                
                                  Ne of his tayl bihynd took / he no keep
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                                  his wyf burdoun a ful strong
                                
                                  Men might her rowtyng heeren a forlong
                                
                                  The wenche routeþ eek par companye
                                
                                  Aleyn þe clerk þat herd þis melodye

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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 119
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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