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 / Line 4328 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 Line 4332 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 Line 4336 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 / Line 4340 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 Line 4344 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 Line 4348 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 Line 4352 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 Line 4356

Line 4356 But soth play quad play as þe flemyng saith . . . . . [No gap in the MS.] Be thou nat wroþ or we departe her Though þat my tale be of an hostyler Line 4360 But naþeles I wol not telle it ȝit/ But or we departe it schal be quyt/ And þer wiþ al he lowh / and made chere And seyde his tale as ȝe schal after heere [[No break in the MS.]] Line 4364