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 ...

                                
                                  He poked Iohn / and seide slepes thow
                                
                                  Herd thow euere slike a sang / or now
                                
                                  Lo slike a complyng / is ymell hem alle [folio 51a] 
                                
                                  A wylde fyr / on theire bodies falle
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                                  Wha herd euere / slike a ferly thyng
                                
                                  Ȝe they sal haue / the flour of euele endyng
                                
                                  This lang nyght / ne tydes me na rest
                                
                                  But ȝet na force / al sal be for the best
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                                  ffor Iohn seide he / as euere mot I thryue
                                
                                  If þat I may / ȝone lasse wol I swyue
                                
                                  Som easement / has lawe shapen vs
                                
                                  ffor Iohn there is a lawe / that seith thus
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                                  That gyf a man / in a poynt be greued
                                
                                  That in a-nother / he shal be releued
                                
                                  Oure corn is stolen / sothly it is na nay
                                
                                  And we han had / an ylle fyt this day
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                                  And syn I sal haue / nan amendement
                                
                                  Agayn my losse / I wyl haue an easement
                                
                                  By goddes saule / it sal nan other be
                                
                                  ¶ . This Iohn answered / Aleyn a-vyse the
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                                  The Millere is a parlious man / he seide
                                
                                  And gyf that he / ouȝt of his slepe breyde
                                
                                  he myght do vs bathe / a velanye
                                
                                  Aleyn answered / I counte him nat a flye
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                                  vp he rist / and by the wenche he crepte
                                
                                  This wenche lay vp-right / & faste slepte
                                
                                  Til he so ny was / er she myght a-spye
                                
                                  That it had ben to late / for to crye
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                                  And shortly for to seyn / they were at on
                                
                                  Now pley Aleyn / for I wyl speke of Iohn
                                
                                  ¶ . This Iohn lith stille / a forlong wey or two
                                
                                  And to him self / he maketh reuthe and woo
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                                  Allas quod he / this is / a wykked Iape
                                
                                  Now may I sey / that I is but an Ape
                                
                                  Ȝet has my felawe / somwhat for his harm
                                
                                  he has the Milleres doughter / in his arm

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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 120
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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