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

                                  
                                    The Cook of londoun whil þe Reeue spak
                                  
                                    For Ioye he þought / he clawed him on þe bak
                                  
                                    ha ha quod he / for cristes passioun
                                  
                                    This meller haþ a scharp conclusioun /
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                                    vpon his argument of herburgage
                                  
                                    wel seyde Salomon in his langage /
                                  
                                    Ne bryng nat euery man in to þyn hous
                                  
                                    For herburgage by night is perilous
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                                    wel aught a man avised for to be
                                  
                                    whom þat he brought in to his pryuyte [folio 58a] 
                                  
                                    I pray to god so gyf my body care /
                                  
                                    Ȝif euer siþþe I highte hogge of ware
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                                    herd I better myller set a werke /
                                  
                                    he hadde a Iape of malice in þe derke /
                                  
                                    And þerfore if ȝe fouche sauf to heere
                                  
                                    But god forbede þat we stynten heere /
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                                    A tale of me þat am a pouer man
                                  
                                    I wol ȝow telle as wel as I kan
                                  
                                    A litel Iape þat fel in oure cite
                                  
                                    Oure host seyde I graunt it the
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                                    Now telle on Roger & loke it be good
                                  
                                    For many a pastey hastow lete blood
                                  
                                    And many a Iakk of douer hastow sold
                                  
                                    That haþ be twyes hoot and twyes cold
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                                    Of many a pilgrym hastow cristes curs
                                  
                                    For þy persly þey faren ȝet þe wors
                                  
                                    That they haue eten wiþ þe stubbil goos
                                  
                                    For in þy schoppe is many a flye loos
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                                    Now goode / gentil Roger by þy name /
                                  
                                    But ȝit I pray þe be nought wroþ for game
                                  
                                    . . . . . [No gap in the MS.] 
                                  
                                    Thow saist ful soþ quod Roger by my faith

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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 125
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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