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 ...

                                
                                  we be acorded / to his Iuggement /
                                
                                  And ther-vp-on / the wyn was fet anon
                                
                                  we dronkyn & to rest / wenten ichon
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                                  with-outen eny lengere / tariyng
                                
                                  ¶ . A morwe / whan þe day gan spryng
                                
                                  Vp ros oure Ost / and was oure aller Cok
                                
                                  And gadered vs to gedir / on a flok
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                                  And forth we redyn / a litel pas
                                
                                  vn-to the wateryng / of seynt Thomas
                                
                                  And there oure Ost / bygan his hors arest
                                
                                  And seide lordes / herkeneth if ȝow list
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                                  Ȝe wete oure forward / if ȝe it record
                                
                                  If euesong / and morwesong accord
                                
                                  late se now / who shall telle þe first tale
                                
                                  As euere mote I drynke / wyn or ale
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                                  who so be rebel / to my Iuggement
                                
                                  Shal paie for al þat is / by the weye I-spent
                                
                                  Now draweth cutte / er we ferthere twynne
                                
                                  ffor he þat hath the shortest / shal begynne
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                                  ¶ . Sire Knyght quod he / my maister & my lord
                                
                                  Now draweth Cutte / for this is myn accord
                                
                                  Cometh nere quod he / my lady Prioresse
                                
                                  And ȝe sire clerk / late be ȝoure shamefastnesse
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                                  Ne studieth nought / ley hand to euery man [folio 13a] 
                                
                                  A-non to drawe / euery wyght bygan
                                
                                  And shortly to telle / as it was
                                
                                  were it by auenture / or sort / or cas
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                                  The soth is this / the kut fel on the knyght
                                
                                  Of which ful glad / was euery wyght
                                
                                  And telle he must his tale / as it was reson
                                
                                  By forward / and by composicion
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                                  As ȝe han herd / what nedeth wordes mo
                                
                                  And whan þis good man / saugh þat it was so
                                
                                  As he þat wys was / and obedient
                                
                                  To kepe his forward / by his free assent
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                                  And seide / sithe / I shal begynne þe game

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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 24
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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