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

                                
                                     [6-text p 400] 
                                  
                                  Now etith ȝour mete and let þe cherl go play /
                                
                                  Let him go honge himself on deuel way / [[The Solution of the "Probleme" by the Lord's Sguire. No break in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  Now stood þe lordes squier at þe bord
                                
                                  That carf his mete and herde word by word
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                                  Of al þis þing which þat I of haue sayd
                                
                                  My lord quod he be ȝe nouȝt euel payd
                                
                                  I couþe telle for a gowne cloth
                                
                                  To ȝow sir frere so þat ȝe be not wroth
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                                  How þat þis fart euen / departed schuld be
                                
                                  Among ȝour couent if I comaunded be
                                
                                  Tel quod þe lord and þou schalt haue anoon [folio 116a] 
                                
                                  A goune cloþ by god and by seint Iohn
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                                  My lord quod he whan þat þe wedir is fair
                                
                                  wiþoute wynd or pertourbyng of ayr
                                
                                  let bring a large whel in to þis halle
                                
                                  But þat it haue his spokes alle
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                                  Twelf spokes hath a cart whel comunly
                                
                                  And bring me . xij . freres wit ȝe why
                                
                                  For þrettene is a couent as I gesse /
                                
                                  Ȝour noble confessour her god him blesse
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                                  Schal parfourn vp þe nombre of þis couent
                                
                                  Thanne schal þay knele doun by oon assent
                                
                                  And to euery spokes ende in þis manere
                                
                                  Ful sadly lay his nose schal a frere
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                                  Ȝour noble confessour þer god him saue
                                
                                  Schal hold his nose vpright vnder þe naue
                                
                                  Than schal þis churl with bely stif and tought
                                
                                  As eny tabor hider ben y-brought
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                                  And sette him on þe whele of þis cart
                                
                                  vpon þe naue and make him lete a fart
                                
                                  And ȝe schul seen vp peril of my lif
                                
                                  By verray proef þat is demonstratif

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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 260
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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