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

                                  
                                    Reuel and trouþe as in a lowe degre
                                  
                                    They ben ful wroþ al day as ȝe may see
                                  
                                    This Ioly Prentys with his mayster bood
                                  
                                    Til he was oute neyȝ of his prentys hood
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                                    Al were he snybbyd boþe erly and late
                                  
                                    And som tyme lad with reuel in to Newgate
                                  
                                    But atte laste his mayster him bythought
                                  
                                    vpon a day whan he his papyr sought
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                                    Of a prouerbe þat siþ þis same word
                                  
                                    wel bette is roten appul out of hord
                                  
                                    Than it rote al þe remenaunt/
                                  
                                    So fareth it by a ryotous seruaunt
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                                    hit is ful lasse harm to late him pa
                                  
                                    Than he schend al þe seruauntes in þe place
                                  
                                    Therfore his mayster ȝaf him acqueyntaunce
                                  
                                    And bad him go wiþ sorwe and wiþ meschaunce
                                    Line 4412 
                                  
                                    And þus þe ioly prentys had his leue //
                                  
                                    Now let hym ryot al þe night or leue. [[Lines 4413, 4414 form the last line of the page in the MS.]]

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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 128
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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