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

                                
                                     [6-text p 375] 
                                  
                                  If that þe happe come in to oure schire
                                
                                  Al schal be þin right as þou wolt desire
                                
                                  Graunt mercy quod þis sompnour by my faith /
                                
                                  Euerich in otheres hond his trouthe laith
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                                  For to be sworne breþeren til þay deyen
                                
                                  In daliaunce forþ þay ride and pleyen
                                
                                  This Sompnour which þat was as ful of iangles
                                
                                  As ful of venym ben þese wery-angles
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                                  And euer enquering vpon euery þing
                                
                                  Broþer quod he wher now is ȝour dwellyng
                                
                                  Anoþer day if þat I schuld ȝow seeche
                                
                                  This ȝiman him answerd in softe speche
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                                  Broþer quod he fer in þe norþ contre
                                
                                  wher as I hope somtyme I schal þe se
                                
                                  Er we depart I schal þe so wel wisse
                                
                                  That of myn hous ne schaltow neuer misse
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                                  Now broþer quod þis sompnour I ȝow pray
                                
                                  Teche me whil þat we ryden by þe way
                                
                                  Syn þat ȝe ben a baily as am I
                                
                                  Som subtilte as tel me faithfully
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                                  In myn office . how þat I may wynne.
                                
                                  And spare not for consciens or for synne /
                                
                                  But as my broþer tel me how do ȝe
                                
                                  Now by my trouthe brothir myn sayd he /
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                                  As I schal telle þe a faithful tale [folio 105a] 
                                
                                  My wages ben ful streyt and eek ful smale
                                
                                  My lord to me is streyt and daungerous
                                
                                  And myn office is ful laborous
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                                  And þerfor by extorciouns I lyue
                                
                                  For soþ I take al þat men wil me ȝiue
                                
                                  Algate by sleighte or by violence
                                
                                  Fro ȝer to ȝer I wynne my despence
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                                  I can no better telle faithfully
                                
                                  Now certes quod þis sompnour so fare I
                                
                                  I spare not to take god it woot
                                
                                  But if it be to heuy or to hoot

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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 235
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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