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 ...

                                  
                                    But wyl ne shal faylen / that is soth
                                  
                                    And ȝet haue ik alwey / a coltyssh toth
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                                    As many a ȝere / as it is passed henne
                                  
                                    Sithe that my tappe / of lyf / bygan to renne
                                  
                                    ffor sekirly / whan yk was born / a-non
                                  
                                    Deth drough the tapp of lyf / and let it gon
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                                    And euere sithe / hathe so / the tappe I-ronne
                                  
                                    Til that almost / al empty is the tonne
                                  
                                    The streme of lyf / now droppeth on the chyme
                                  
                                    The sely tonge / may wel rynge & chymbe
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                                    Of wrecchednesse / that passed is ful ȝore
                                  
                                    With olde folk / saue / dotage is na more
                                  
                                    ¶ . Whan þat our host / had herd this sermonyng
                                  
                                    he gan to speke / as lordly as a kynge
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                                    And seide what amounteth al this wyt [folio 48a] 
                                  
                                    Why shuln we al day / speke of holy wryt
                                  
                                    The deuele mad a Reue / for to preche
                                  
                                    Or a Soutere / a shipman / or a leche
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                                    Sey forth thy tale / and tary nat the tyme
                                  
                                    lo Depforde / and it is half weye pryme
                                  
                                    lo Grenewyche / there many a shrewe is Inne
                                  
                                    It were al tyme / thy tale to bygynne
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                                    Now Sires / quod this Oswold the Reue
                                  
                                    I prey ȝow alle / that ȝe nat ȝow greue
                                  
                                    Though I answere / and somdel sette his howe
                                  
                                    ffor leueful is / with force / force of showe
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                                    This dronken Millere / hath told vs here
                                  
                                    how that begyled was / a Carpentere
                                  
                                    Parauenture in skorne / for I am one
                                  
                                    And by ȝoure leue / I shal him quyte anone
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                                    Ryght in his cherles termes / wol I speke
                                  
                                    I preye to god / his nekke mot to-breke
                                  
                                    he can wel in myn eye / sen a stalke
                                  
                                    But in his owen / he can nat sen a balke

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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 112
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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