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

                                
                                  We been acorded to his Iuggement
                                
                                  And þer-vpon þe wyn was fet anoon
                                
                                  we dronken and to reste wente echoon.
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                                  wiþouten eny lengere taryinge
                                
                                  A morwe whan þat þe day bigan to sprynge
                                
                                  vp roos oure Ost and was oure althur cok
                                
                                  And gaderud vs to-gidur alle in a flok
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                                  And forth we riden a litel more þan paas
                                
                                  vnto þe waterynge of seint Thomas
                                
                                  And þere oure Ost bigan his hors areste
                                
                                  And seyde lordus herkeneþ if ȝow leste
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                                  Ȝe woot ȝoure forward and I it ȝou recorde
                                
                                  If euesong and morwesong acorde
                                
                                  Lat se now who schal telle ferst a tale
                                
                                  As euere I moote drinke wyn or ale
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                                  who-so be rebel to my Iuggement
                                
                                  Schal paye for al þat by the weye is spent
                                
                                  Now draweth Cut/ er þat we forther twynne
                                
                                  which þat hath þe schortest schal bygynne
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                                  Sire knight quoþ he maister and my lord [folio 12a] 
                                
                                  Now draweth Cut. for þat is myn acord
                                
                                  Cometh ner quod he my lady prioresse
                                
                                  And ȝe sir Clerk lat be ȝour schamfastnesse
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                                  Ne studieth nat ley hand to euery man
                                
                                  Anon to drawen euery wight bigan
                                
                                  And schortly for to tellen as it was
                                
                                  were it by auenture or sort or cas
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                                  The soth is þis the Cut fil to the knight
                                
                                  Of which ful glad and bliþe was euery wight
                                
                                  And telle he moste his tale as was resoun
                                
                                  By forward and by composicioun
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                                  As ȝe han herd what needeþ wordes moo
                                
                                  And whan þis goode man seigh þat it was so
                                
                                  As he that wys was and obedient
                                
                                  To kepe his forward by his fre assent
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                                  He seyde syn I schal bygynne the game

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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 24
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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