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 ...

                                
                                  My wit is short ye may wele vndrestond
                                
                                  Grete chere made our host vs euerychone
                                
                                  And to soper set we vs anone
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                                  He serued vs with vitailles at þe best
                                
                                  Strong was the wyne and wele drynke vs lest
                                
                                  A semely man our host was with-all
                                
                                  ffor to ben a Marchall in an hall
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                                  A large man he was with yen stepe
                                
                                  A feirer burgeys was there nought in chepe
                                
                                  Bold of his speche and wyse and wele taght
                                
                                  And of manhode lakked hym right naght
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                                  Eke he was therto a mery man
                                
                                  And after soper pley he began [[Eg. 2726 ends]] 
                                
                                  And spak of mirthe / a-mong other thynges [Dd. 4. 24 begins, leaf 12] 
                                
                                  Whan þat he had mad / oure rekenynges
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                                  And seide / lo lordyngges trewely
                                
                                  Ȝe ben to me / right welcome hertily
                                
                                  ffor be my treuthe / if that I shal nat lye
                                
                                  I sey nat þis ȝere / so merie a companye
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                                  At ones / in this herberwe / as is nowe
                                
                                  ffayn wold I do ȝow myrthe / & I wist howe
                                
                                  And of a mirthe / I am ryght now be-þouȝt
                                
                                  To don ȝow ease / and it shal cost nouȝt
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                                  ¶ Ȝe gon to Caunterbury / god ȝow spede
                                
                                  That blisful martir / quyte ȝow ȝoure mede
                                
                                  And wel I wot / as ȝe gon by the weye
                                
                                  ȝe shapen ȝow to talken / and to pleye
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                                  ffor trewely / comfort ne mirthe is non
                                
                                  To ride by the weye / as dom as it were a ston
                                
                                  And þerfore wyl I / maken ȝow disport
                                
                                  As I seide erst / and do ȝow som comfort
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                                  And if ȝow like / alle be one assent
                                
                                  To stonden / at my Iuggement
                                
                                  And for to werken / as I shal ȝow sey
                                
                                  To-morwe / whan ȝe riden by the wey
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                                  Now be my faders soule / þat is dede

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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 22
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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