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 we sal paie trewely / at the fulle
                                
                                  With empty hand / men moun na haukes tulle
                                
                                  lo here oure siluer / redy for to spende
                                
                                  ¶ . This Millere / to the toun / his doughter sende
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                                  ffor ale and brede / and rosted hem a goos
                                
                                  And bond here hors / it shulde no more go loos
                                
                                  And in his owen chaumbre / hem mad a bed
                                
                                  With shetes / and with chalons / faire I-spred
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                                  Nat fro his owen bed / ten fote or twelue
                                
                                  His doughter had a bed / al by hire selue
                                
                                  Right in þe same chaumbre / by and by
                                
                                  It myght be no bet / and cause why
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                                  There was no roumere herberwe / in the place
                                
                                  They soupen / and they speken of solace
                                
                                  And drynken euere strong ale / at the best
                                
                                  Aboute mydnyght / went they to rest
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                                  ¶ . Wel hath this Millere / vernysshed his hede
                                
                                  fful pale he was / for-dronke / and nat rede
                                
                                  he ȝesketh / and he speketh thorugh the nose
                                
                                  As he were on the quak / or on the pose
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                                  To bedde he goth / & with him goth his wyf
                                
                                  As ony Iay / she light was and iolyf
                                
                                  So was hire ioly whistel / wel I-wette
                                
                                  The cradel at hire beddes fete / is shette
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                                  To rokken / and to ȝeue the child souke
                                
                                  And whan þat dronken al was / in the crouke
                                
                                  To bedde went the doughter / right a-non
                                
                                  To bedde goth Aleyn / and also Iohn
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                                  There was nomore / hem nedeth no dwale
                                
                                  This Millere hath so wysely / bybed ale
                                
                                  That as an hors / he snorteth in his slepe
                                
                                  Ne of his tayl behynde / he toke no kepe
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                                  His wyf bar him a burdon / a ful strong
                                
                                  Men myght here routyng heren / a furlong
                                
                                  The wenche routed eke / par compaignye
                                
                                  ¶ . Aleyn the Clerk / that herd this melodye

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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 119
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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