But or þou go o thing I wol þe telle
whan þat þou wendist homward by þe melle
Right at þe entre of þe dore byhynde
Thou schalt a cake of half a busshel fynde
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That was I-maked of þyn owen mele
Which þat I hilp myn owen self to stele
And goode lemman god þe saue and kepe
And wiþ þat word almost sche gan to weepe
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Aleyn vprist and þought er þat it dawe
I wol go crepen in by my felawe
And fand þe cradil wiþ his hand anon
By god þought he al wrong I haue I-goon
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My heed is toty of my swynk to nyght
That / makes me þat I ga nouȝt aright
I wot wel by þe cradel I haue mys go
heer lith þe myller and his wyf also
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Forþ he goþ in twenty deuelway
vnto þe bed þer as þe Miller lay
he wende haue crope by his felaw Ion [folio 57a]
And by þe myller in he creep anon
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And caught him by þe nekke and soft he spak
And seyde Ion þou swyneshed awak
For cristes sowle and here a noble game
For by þat lord þat cleped is seynt Iame
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As I haue þries in þis schorte night
Swyued þe myllers douȝter bolt vpright
whiles þou hast as a coward ben agast
Ȝe false harlot quod þis mellere hast/
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A false traitour false clerk quod he
Thou schalt be deed by goddes dignite
who durste be so bold to disparage
My doughter þat is com of hih lynage /
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And by þe þrote-bolle he caught aleyn
And he hent him dispitously ageyn
And on þe nose he smot him with his fest
Doun ran þe blody streem vpon his brest
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