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 ȝe be merie / I wyl ȝeue ȝow myn hede
                                
                                  holde vp ȝoure hondes / with-oute more speche
                                
                                  Oure counseil was nouȝt / longe for to seche
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                                  Vs þouȝt it was nat worthy / to make it nyce
                                
                                  And graunted him / with-oute more a-vyse
                                
                                  And bad him sey / his verdyt as him lest
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                                  ¶ . lordyngges quod he / now herkeneth for the best
                                
                                  But take it nouȝt / I prey ȝow in disdeyn
                                
                                  This is þe poynt / to speke it short & pleyn
                                
                                  That eche of ȝow / to short with ȝoure weye
                                
                                  In this viage / shall telle tales tweye
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                                  To Caunterburyward / I mene it so
                                
                                  And homward / he shal telle othere two
                                
                                  Of auentures / that whilom / han byfalle
                                
                                  And which of ȝow / bereth him best of alle
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                                  That is to seyn / that telleth in þis cas
                                
                                  Tales / of most sentence and solas
                                
                                  Shal haue a soper / at our alder cost
                                
                                  Here in this place / sittyng by this post [folio 12b] 
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                                  whan þat we comen a-geyn / fro Caunterbury
                                
                                  And for to make ȝow / the more mery
                                
                                  I wyl my self goodly / with ȝow ryde
                                
                                  Right at myn owen cost / and be ȝoure guyde
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                                  And who so wyl / my Iuggement with-sey
                                
                                  shal paie al that we spende / by the wey
                                
                                  And if ȝe wouchesaue / þat it be so
                                
                                  Telle me a-non / with-oute wordes mo
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                                  And I wyl erly / shape me therfore
                                
                                  This þing was graunted / and oure othes swore
                                
                                  with ful glad hert / and prayed him also
                                
                                  That he wold vouchesaue / so to do
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                                  And that he wolde be / oure gouernour
                                
                                  And of our tales / Iugge and reportour
                                
                                  And sette a soper / at a certein prise
                                
                                  And we wyl reuled be / at his deuyse
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                                  In heygh & lowe / and thus by one assent

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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 23
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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