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

                                
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                                  Breþeren takeþ keep what I schal say
                                
                                  My witte is gret þough þat I bourde and play
                                
                                  This tresour haþ fortune to vs ȝiuen
                                
                                  In mirth and iolyte our lif to lyuen
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                                  And lightly as it comth so wil we spende
                                
                                  Ey goddis precious dignite who wende
                                
                                  To day þat we schuld haue so fair a grace
                                
                                  But might þis gold be caried fro þis place
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                                  Hom to myn hous or ellis vnto ȝoures
                                
                                  For wel I wot þat þis gold is nouȝt oures
                                
                                  Than were we . in heyh felicite
                                
                                  But trewely by day it may not be
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                                  Men wolde say þat we were þeues stronge /
                                
                                  And for oure tresour doon vs for to honge
                                
                                  This tresour moste caried be by night [folio 192a] 
                                
                                  As wysly and as slely as it might
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                                  wherfore I rede þat cut among vs alle
                                
                                  Be drawe and let se wher þe cut wil falle
                                
                                  He þat haþ þe cut wiþ herte bliþe/
                                
                                  Schal renne to þe toun and þat ful swithe
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                                  To bring vs bred and wyn ful priuely
                                
                                  And tuo of vs schal kepe subtilly
                                
                                  This tresour wel and if he wil not tarie
                                
                                  whan it is night we wol þis tresour carie
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                                  By oon assent þer as vs likeþ best/
                                
                                  That oon of hem þe cut/ brought in his fest/
                                
                                  And bad hem drawe and loke wher it wil falle
                                
                                  And it fel on þe ȝongest of hem alle /
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                                  And forþ toward þe toun he went anoon
                                
                                  And al so soone as he was agoon
                                
                                  That oon of hem . spak vnto þat oþer
                                
                                  Thow wost/ wel þat þou art my sworne broþer
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                                  Thy profyt wol I . telle þe anoon
                                
                                  Thow wost wel þat our felaw is a-goon
                                
                                  And her is gold and þat ful gret plente
                                
                                  That schal departed be among vs þre /

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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 439
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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