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 Iohn also / how now what do ȝe here
                                
                                  By god quod Iohn / nede must / nede hath no pere
                                
                                  hym byhoues to serue him self / þat has na swayn
                                
                                  Or ellis he is a fool / as clerkes sayn
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                                  Oure Maunciple I hope / he wol be dede
                                
                                  Swa werkes ay / the wanges in his hede
                                
                                  And forthy is I come / & eke Alayn
                                
                                  To grynde oure corn / and carye mele a-gayn
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                                  I pray ȝow spede vs hethen / what ȝe may
                                
                                  ¶ . It shal be do quod Symkyn / be my fay
                                
                                  What wyl ȝe don / while þat it is in hand [folio 49b] 
                                
                                  By god / right by the hoper / wyl I stand
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                                  Quod Iohn / and se how the corn gas In
                                
                                  Ȝet saw I neuere / be my fader kyn
                                
                                  how that the hoper / wagges tyl and fra
                                
                                  Aleyn answered / Iohn wylt thow swa
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                                  Than wyl I be by-nethe / be my croun
                                
                                  And se how that the mele / falles doun
                                
                                  In-tyl the trow / that shal be myn disport
                                
                                  ffor Iohn in faith / I may be of ȝoure sort
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                                  I is as ille a Myllere / as ar ȝe
                                
                                  ¶ . This Millere smyleth / at here nycete
                                
                                  And thought / al this nys / but for a wyle
                                
                                  They wene þat no man / may hem begyle
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                                  But be my thrift / ȝet shal I blere here eye
                                
                                  ffor al the sleight / in here philosophie
                                
                                  The more queynt crekes / that they make
                                
                                  The more wol I stele / whan I take
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                                  In stede of flour / ȝet wol I ȝeue hem bren
                                
                                  The grettest Clerkes / be nat the wysest men
                                
                                  As whilom to the wolf / thus spak the Mare
                                
                                  Of al here art / counte I nat a tare
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                                  Ouȝt at the dore / he goth ful preuyly
                                
                                  whan þat he sawgh his tyme / softly
                                
                                  he loketh vp and doun / til he had found
                                
                                  The Clerkes horse / there as it stod I-bound

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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 116
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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