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 in the flore / with nose & mouth to-broke
                                
                                  They walwen / as don / tweyne pygges in a poke
                                
                                  And vp they gon / and doun a-geyn a-non
                                
                                  Til þat the Millere / spurned at a ston
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                                  And doun he fel bakward / vp-on his wyf
                                
                                  That wyst no thyng / of this nyce stryf
                                
                                  ffor she was falle a-slepe / a litel wyght
                                
                                  with Iohn the Clerk / that waked had al nyght
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                                  And with the fal / out of hire slepe she breyde
                                
                                  help holy croys of Bromholme / she seide
                                
                                  In manus tuas / lord to the I calle
                                
                                  A-wake Symkyn / the fend is on me falle
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                                  Myn hert is broken / help I nam but dede
                                
                                  There lith vp-on my wombe / & on myn hede
                                
                                  help Symkyn / for the fals Clerkes fight
                                
                                  ¶ . This Iohn stirt vp / als fast as euere he myght
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                                  And gropeth by the walles / to and fro
                                
                                  To fynde a staf / and she stert vp also
                                
                                  And knew the estres / bet þanne dide this Iohn
                                
                                  And by the wal / a staf she fond a-non
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                                  And saw a litel slemeryng / of a light
                                
                                  ffor at an hole / in shon the Mone bright
                                
                                  And by þat light / she saw hem bothe two
                                
                                  But sekerly she nyst / who was who
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                                  But as she saw / a whit þing in hire eye
                                
                                  And whan she gan / this white þing aspie
                                
                                  She wende the Clerk / had wered a volupere
                                
                                  And with the staf / she drow ay nere & nere
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                                  And wend han hit / this Aleyn at the fulle
                                
                                  And smot the Millere / on the pyled skulle
                                
                                  That doun he goth / and cried Harrow I dye [folio 52b] 
                                
                                  Theise Clerkes / bete hym wele / and lete him lye
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                                  And ordeyned hem / and toke here hors a-non
                                
                                  And eke here mele / and on here weye they gon
                                
                                  And at the Mille / ȝet they toke here cake
                                
                                  Of half a busshel flour / ful wel I-bake

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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 123
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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