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

                                
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                                  ¶ wel quod þe maunciple if þat I may doon ease /
                                
                                  To þe sir Cook and to no wiȝt displease /
                                
                                  which þat her rydeþ in þis compaignye
                                
                                  And our host wolde of his curteisie
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                                  I wol as now excuse þe of þy tale
                                
                                  For in good faith þi visage is ful pale
                                
                                  þyn eyen daswen eek. also me þinkith
                                
                                  And wel I woot þy breth ful foule stynkith
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                                  That scheweþ eek þou art nought wel disposid
                                
                                  Of me certeyn þou schalt nouȝt ben I-glosed
                                
                                  Se how he ganith. lo þis dronken wight
                                
                                  As þough he wolde swolwe vs anoon right
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                                  hold clos þy mouth by þy fader kynne
                                
                                  The deuel of helle sette his foot þer Inne
                                
                                  Thy cursed breth effecte wil vs alle
                                
                                  Fy stynkyng swyne foule mot þe falle
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                                  A. takiþ heed sires of þis lusty man
                                
                                  Now swete sir. wol ȝe ioust atte fan
                                
                                  Therto me þinkþ. ȝe beþ right wel I-schape
                                
                                  I trowe þa ȝe dronken han wyn ape [folio 247a] 
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                                  And þat whan men playen with a straw
                                
                                  And with his speche þe cook wax angry & wraw
                                
                                  And on þe maunciple bygan he nodde fast
                                
                                  For lak of speche. and doun þe hors him cast
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                                  wher as he lay til þat men him up took
                                
                                  This was a fair Chiuache of a cook
                                
                                  Allas þat he nad hold him by his ladil
                                
                                  And er þat he agayn were in his sadil
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                                  Ther was gret schowuyng boþe to and fro
                                
                                  To lift him vp and moche care and wo
                                
                                  So vnwelde was þis sory pallid gost
                                
                                  And to þe maunciple þanne spak oure host
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                                  By cause drink hath dominacioun
                                
                                  Vpon þis man by my sauacioun
                                
                                  I trow he lewedly tel wol his tale
                                
                                  For were it wyn or old moysty ale

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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 579
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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