The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  That she had had / a ship hire-self a-lone
                                
                                  And þerfore wost þou what / is best to done
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                                  This asketh hast / and of an hasty thyng
                                
                                  Men moun nat preche / and maken tariyng
                                
                                  A-non go gete vs fattes / in-to this Inne
                                
                                  A knedyng trow / or ellis a kamelyne
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                                  ffor ech of vs / but loke þat they be large
                                
                                  In whiche we moun swymme / as in a barge
                                
                                  And haue þere-Inne / vetaille sufficient
                                
                                  But for o day / fy on the remenaunt
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                                  The water shal a-slake / and gon a-wey
                                
                                  A-boute pryme / vp-on the next day
                                
                                  But Robyn may nat wyte of this / thy knaue
                                
                                  Ne eke thy mayde Gille / I may nat saue
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                                  Aske nat why / for though þou axe me
                                
                                  I wol nat telle / goddis preuyte
                                
                                  Suffiseth the / but if thyne wyttes madde
                                
                                  To han as gret a grace / as Noe hadde
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                                  Thy wyf shal I wel sauen / ouȝt of doute
                                
                                  Go now thy wey / and spede the here a-boute
                                
                                  But when þou hast / for hire and the and me
                                
                                  I-geten vs / theise knedyng tubbes thre
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                                  Thanne shalt þou hangen hem / in the roof ful heye
                                
                                  That noman / of oure purueance / espie
                                
                                  And whan þow hast don / as I haue seid
                                
                                  And hast oure vetaille / faire in hem leyd
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                                  And eke an ax / to smyte the cord a-two
                                
                                  Whan þat the water cometh / þat we may go
                                
                                  And breke an hole an hey / vp-on the gable
                                
                                  Vn-to the gardeyn ward / ouer the stable
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                                  That we moun freely passen / forth oure wey
                                
                                  whanne þat the grete shour / is gon a-wey
                                
                                  Thanne shalt þou swymme / as mery I vndertake
                                
                                  As doth the white doke / after hire drake
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                                  Than wyl I clepe / how Alison / how Iohn
                                
                                  Be mery / for the flode / shal passe a-non

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 102
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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