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

                                
                                     [6-text p 557] 
                                  
                                  And if a man wol aske hem priuely
                                
                                  why þay ben cloþed so vnþriftily
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                                  Right anoon þay rounen in his eere /
                                
                                  And say if þat þay espied were
                                
                                  Men wold hem slee by cause of here science
                                
                                  Lo þus þis folk bytrayen Innocence
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                                  Passe ouer þis I go my tale vnto
                                
                                  Er þan þe pot be on þe fuyr y-do
                                
                                  Of metals with a certeyn quantite
                                
                                  My lord hem tempreþ and no man but he
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                                  Now he is goon I dar say boldely
                                
                                  For as men sayn he can doon craftily
                                
                                  Algate I wot wel he haþ such a name [folio 174a] 
                                
                                  And ȝet ful ofte he renneþ in blame
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                                  ¶ And wite ȝe how ful ofte it happeþ so
                                
                                  The pot tobrekeþ and far wel al is goo
                                
                                  These metals been of so gret violence /
                                
                                  Oure walles may not make hem resistence
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                                  But if þay were wrought of lym and stoon
                                
                                  Thay percen so and þurgh þe wal þay goon
                                
                                  And some of hem synken in to þe grounde/
                                
                                  Thus haue we lost by tymes many a pounde
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                                  And some are skatered al þe floor aboute
                                
                                  Some lepe in to þe roof wiþouten doute
                                
                                  Though þat þe feend nought in oure sight him schewe /
                                
                                  I trowe þat he wiþ vs be þat schrewe /
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                                  In helle wher þat he is lord and sire
                                
                                  Nis þer no more woo ne anger ne Ire /
                                
                                  whan þat oure pot is broke as I haue sayd
                                
                                  Euery man chyt and halt him euel a payd
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                                  Som sayd it was long on þe fuyr-makyng
                                
                                  Some sayde nay it was on þe blowyng
                                
                                  Than was I ferd for þat was myn office /
                                
                                  Straw quod þe þridde / ȝe been lewed and nyce
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                                  It was nouȝt tempred as it oughte be /
                                
                                  Nay quod þe ferþe stynt and herkne 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 397
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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