They tolden euery man / that he was wode
he was so a-gast / of Noes flode
Thorugh fantasye / that of his vanyte
he had brought him / knedynge tubbes thre
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And had hem hanged / in the rof a-boue
And that he preyed hem / for goddes loue
To sitten in the rof / par companye
The folk gonne laughen / at his fantasye
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In-to the rof / they kekyn and they gape
And turned al his harm / vn-to a Iape
ffor what so / þat this Carpenter / answered
It was for nought / no man his reson hered
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with othes grete / he was so sworn a-doun
That he was holden wod / in al the toun
ffor euery clerk / a-non right / held with other
And seiden / the man was wod / my lef brother
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And euery wyght gan laughen / of this striffe
Thus swyued was / the Carpenteres wyffe
ffor al his kepyng / and his Ielousye
And Absolon / hath kyssed / hire nether eye
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And Nicholas is skalded / in the toute
This tale is don / and god saue al the routh; quod Wytton; [folio 47b]
Thus endeth the Millers tale / [[No break in the MS.]]
