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 ...

                                
                                  And namelich there was / a gret College [folio 49a] 
                                
                                  Men clepen the Soler halle / of Caumbrygge
                                
                                  There was here whete / & eke here malt I-grounde
                                
                                  ¶ . And on a day / it happed in a stounde
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                                  Seke lay the Maunciple / on a maladie
                                
                                  Men wenden wysly / that he shulde deye
                                
                                  ffor which this Millere / stal bothe mele & corn
                                
                                  An hondred tymes more / than byforn
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                                  ffor there biforn / he stale but curteisly
                                
                                  But now he was a thef / outrageously
                                
                                  ffor which the wardeyn chide / & made fare
                                
                                  But þerof sette the Millere / nought a tare
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                                  he craketh bost / and swor it was nat so
                                
                                  ¶ . Thanne were there ȝonge / pore scoleres two
                                
                                  That dwelleden in the halle / of which I sey
                                
                                  Testyf they were / and lusty for to pley
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                                  And only for here myrthe / and reuelrye
                                
                                  vp-on on the wardeyn / besily they crye
                                
                                  To ȝeue hem leue / but a litel stounde
                                
                                  To go to Mille / and sen here corn I-grounde
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                                  And hardily / they durst leyn here nekke
                                
                                  The Millere shuld nat stelen hem / half a pekke
                                
                                  Of corn / by sleight / ne by force hem reue
                                
                                  And at the last / the wardeyn ȝaf hem leue
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                                  Iohn hight þat one / & Aleyn hyght that other
                                
                                  Of on toun were they born / that hight Strother
                                
                                  ffer in the North / I can nat telle where
                                
                                  This Aleyn maketh redy / al his gere
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                                  And on an hors / the sakke he cast a-non
                                
                                  fforth goth Aleyn the Clerk / & also Iohn
                                
                                  with good swerde & bokeler / by here syde
                                
                                  Iohn knew the weye / hem nedeth no gyde
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                                  And at the last / the sakke doun he layth
                                
                                  Aleyn spak first / al hayl Symond in fayth
                                
                                  how fares thy fair doughter / and thy wyf
                                
                                  ¶ . Aleyn welcome quod Symkyn / be my lyf

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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 115
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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