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

                                
                                  He pokyd Iohn / and seyde slepistow
                                
                                  Herdistow euer slik a sang er now
                                
                                  Lo slik a couplyng is betwix hem alle
                                
                                  A wilde fyr vpon þair bodyes falle
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                                  wha herkned euer swilk a ferly þing /
                                
                                  Ȝe þei sul haue þe flour of ille endyng
                                
                                  This lange night þer tydes me na rest
                                
                                  But ȝet na fors al sal be for þe best
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                                  For Iohn sayd he as euer mot I þryue
                                
                                  If þat I may ȝone wenche sal I swyue
                                
                                  Som esement haþ lawe schapen vs
                                
                                  For Iohn þer is a lawe þat says þus
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                                  That if a man in a poynt be agreued [¶ Qui in vno grauatur in alio debet releuari] 
                                
                                  That in anoþer he sal be releeued
                                
                                  Oure corn is stoln soþly it is na nay [folio 56a] 
                                
                                  And we haue had an ylle fitt to day
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                                  And syn I sal haue nan amendement
                                
                                  Agayn my los I wol haue esement /
                                
                                  By godde sale it sal nan oþer be /
                                
                                  This Iohn answerd / aleyn auyse þe
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                                  The Miller is a parlous man he sayde
                                
                                  And if þat he out of his sleep abrayde
                                
                                  he mighte do vs boþe a vilonye
                                
                                  Aleyn answerd I count it nat a flye
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                                  And vp he roos and by þe wenche crepte
                                
                                  This wenche lay vpright and faste slepte
                                
                                  Til he so neih was or sche might aspye
                                
                                  That it had ben to late for to crye
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                                  And schortly for to seye þey weren at oon
                                
                                  Now pley aleyn for I wol speke of Ion
                                
                                  ¶ This Iohn lith stille a forlong whyle or two
                                
                                  And to him self compleyned of his woo
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                                  Allas quod he þis is a wikked Iape /
                                
                                  Now may I say þat I am but an ape
                                
                                  Ȝet haþ my felaw somwat for his harm
                                
                                  he haþ þe myllers doughter in his arm

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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 120
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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