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

                                
                                  And in þe floor wiþ nose and mouþ to-broke
                                
                                  They walweden as pigges in a poke
                                
                                  And vpon þay goon and doun þey goon anon
                                
                                  Til þat þe Millner stumbled at a ston
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                                  And doun he felle / bakward on his wyf
                                
                                  That wyste noþing of þis nyce stryf
                                
                                  For sche was falle a sleepe a litel wight
                                
                                  wiþ Ion þe Clerk þat waked al þe night
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                                  And wiþ þe falle right out of slepe sche brayde
                                
                                  help holy croys of Bromholme sche sayde
                                
                                  In manus tuas lord to þe I calle /
                                
                                  Awake Symond þe feend is in þin halle
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                                  My hert is broken help I am but deed
                                
                                  Ther lythe vpon my wombe and on myn heed
                                
                                  Help Symkyn for þis false clerkes fight
                                
                                  This Iohn stert vp as fast as euer he might
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                                  And grasped by þe walles to and fro
                                
                                  To fynde a staf & sche sturt vp also
                                
                                  And knewe þe estres bet þan dede Ion
                                
                                  And by þe wal sche took a staf anon
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                                  And sawh a litel glymeryng of light [folio 57b] 
                                
                                  For at an hool in schon þe moone light
                                
                                  And by þat light she saugh hem boþe two
                                
                                  But sikirly sche wiste nat who was who
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                                  But sche saugh a whit þing in hir ye
                                
                                  And whan sche gan þis white þing aspye
                                
                                  Sche wend þe clerk had wered a volupeer
                                
                                  And wiþ a staf sche drough hir neer and neer
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                                  And wend haue hit þis Aleyn atte fulle
                                
                                  And smot þis meller on þe piled sculle
                                
                                  And doun he goþ and cryeþ harrow I dye
                                
                                  This clerkes beeten him wel and leet him lye
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                                  And greyth hem wel and take her hors anon
                                
                                  And eek/ here mele and hoom anon þey goon
                                
                                  And at the Millen dore þey tok here cake
                                
                                  Of half a buisshel flour ful wel I-bake

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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 123
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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