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

                                
                                     [6-text p 379] 
                                  
                                  As ferforthly as euer wer ȝe folid
                                
                                  So moche wo as I haue with ȝow tholid
                                
                                  The deuyl haue al boþe cart . and hors and hay
                                
                                  This sompnour sayde her schal we se play
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                                  And ner þe feend he drough as nouȝt ne were
                                
                                  Ful priuely and rouned in his eere
                                
                                  herke my broþer herke by þi faith
                                
                                  Ne herest nought þou . what þe carter saith
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                                  hent it anoon · for he haþ ȝiuen it þe
                                
                                  boþe hay and caples and eek his cart parde
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod þe deuyl god wot neuer a del
                                
                                  It is nought his entente trustith wel
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                                  Ask it þiself if þou not trowist me
                                
                                  Or ellis stint a while and þou schalt se
                                
                                  This carter thakketh his hors vpon the croupe
                                
                                  And þay bygon to drawen and to stowpe
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                                  hayt now quod he ther . Ihu crist ȝow blesse
                                
                                  And al his hondwerk boþe more and lesse
                                
                                  That was wel twight myn oughne lyard boy
                                
                                  I pray god saue þy body and seint loy
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                                  Now is my cart out of þe sloo par de
                                
                                  Lo broþer quod þo feend what told I þe
                                
                                  Her may ȝe seen . myn owne deere broþer
                                
                                  The carter spak oon þing . and þought anoþer
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                                  Let vs go forth . abouten our viage
                                
                                  hier wynne I noþing vpon cariage
                                
                                  whan þat þay comen som what out of toune
                                
                                  This sompnour to his broþir gan to roune
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                                  Brothir quod he . her wonyth an old rebekke
                                
                                  That had almost . as lief to leese hir necke /
                                
                                  As for to ȝiue a peny of hir good
                                
                                  I wolf pens þough þat sche go wood
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                                  Or I wol somone hir to oure office [folio 107a] 
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot I know of hir no vice
                                
                                  But for þou canst not as in þis contre
                                
                                  wynne þy cost tak/ her ensample of me

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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 239
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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