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 ...

                                
                                  But er thow go / o thyng I wyl the telle
                                
                                  Whan that þou wendest homward / by the Mille
                                
                                  Right at the entre / of the dore behynde
                                
                                  Thow shalt a cake / of a busshel fynde
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                                  That was I-maked / of thyn owen Mele
                                
                                  which þat I halpe / my sire for to stele
                                
                                  And good lemman / god the saue & kepe
                                
                                  And with that word / almost he gan to wepe
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                                  ¶ . Aleyn vp ryst / and thought er þat it dawe
                                
                                  I wyl go crepe in / be my felawe
                                
                                  And fond the cradil / at his hand a-non
                                
                                  By god quod he / al wrang I had mysgon
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                                  Myn hed is toty / of my swynk to-nyght
                                
                                  That makes me / that I go nat aright
                                
                                  I wat wel by the Cradel / I haue mysgaa
                                
                                  he lyes the Millere / and his wyf alswa
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                                  ¶ . And forth he goth / a twenty deuele way
                                
                                  Vn-to the bedde / þere as the Millere lay
                                
                                  he wend han cropen / by his felawe Iohn
                                
                                  And by the Millere / In he crepe a-non
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                                  And caught him by þe nekke / and softe he spake
                                
                                  He seide thow Iohn / þow swyneshede a-wake [folio 52a] 
                                
                                  ffor cristes soule / and here a noble game
                                
                                  ffor by that lord / that called is Seynt Jame
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                                  As I haue thries / in this short nyght
                                
                                  Swyued the Milleres doughter / bolt vp-right
                                
                                  While thow hast / as a coward / ben a-gast
                                
                                  ¶ . Ȝe fals harlot / quod the Millere hast
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                                  A fals traytour / fals Clerk quod he
                                
                                  Thow shalt be ded / by goddis dignyte
                                
                                  Who durst be so bold / to disparage
                                
                                  My doughter / þat is come / of swich lynage
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                                  And by the throte bolle / he caught Aleyn
                                
                                  And he hent him / dispetously a-geyn
                                
                                  And on the nose / he smot him with his fist
                                
                                  Doun ran the blody strem / vp-on his brest

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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 122
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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