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 ...

                                
                                  Behynde the Mylle / vnder a lefselle
                                
                                  And to the hors / he goth him faire & wele
                                
                                  And strepeth of the brydel / right a-non
                                
                                  And whan the hors was loos / he begynneth to gon
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                                  Toward the fen / there wylde Mares renne
                                
                                  And forth with we he / thorugh thikke & thenne
                                
                                  ¶ . This Millere goth a-geyn / no word he seid
                                
                                  But doth his note / & with the Clerkes pleyd
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                                  Til that here corn / was faire & wel I-grounde
                                
                                  And whan the Mele is sakked / & I-bounde
                                
                                  This Iohn goth ouȝt / and fynt his hors a-wey
                                
                                  And gan to crye herrowe / and weylawey
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                                  Oure hors is lost / Aleyn / for goddes banes
                                
                                  Step on thy fete / come of man al at anes
                                
                                  Allas oure wardeyn / has his palfrey lorn
                                
                                  This Aleyn / al forgat / bothe Mele and corn
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                                  Al was oute of his mynde / his husbondrye
                                
                                  what whilk weye is he gan / he gan crye
                                
                                  The wyf cam lepyng inward / with a renne [folio 50a] 
                                
                                  She seide allas / ȝoure hors goth to the fenne
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                                  with wylde Mares / as fast as he may go
                                
                                  Vnthank come on his hand / þat bond him so
                                
                                  And he þat betir / shuld han knyt the reyne
                                
                                  Allas quod Iohn / Aleyn for cristes peyne
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                                  lay doun thy swerd / and I wyl myn alswa
                                
                                  I is ful wyght / god wayt as is a raa
                                
                                  By goddes hert / he shal nat skape vs bathe
                                
                                  Why ne had thow put / the capul in the lathe
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                                  Il hayl / by god Aleyn / thow is a fonne
                                
                                  ¶ . Theise sely Clerkes / han ful fast I-ronne
                                
                                  Toward the fen / bothe Aleyn & Iohn
                                
                                  And whanne the Millere saw / þat they weren gon
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                                  he half a busshel / of here flour hath take
                                
                                  And bad his wyf / go knede it in a kake
                                
                                  he seide I trowe / the Clerkes ben a-ferd
                                
                                  Ȝet can a Millere / make a Clerkes berd

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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 117
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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