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 ...

                                
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                                  And yf a man / woll aske hem priuely
                                
                                  Why they ben clothed so vnthriftely
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                                  They right anoon woll rownen in his ere
                                
                                  And seyn / yf þey espied were
                                
                                  Men wold hem slee / by-cause of her science
                                
                                  lo thus this folk/ betrayen Innocence
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                                  Passe ouere this / I go my tale vn-too
                                
                                  On that our pot/ be on the fire ydoo
                                
                                  Of metals / with a certeyn quantitee
                                
                                  My lorde hem tempreth / and no man but he
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                                  Now he is goon I dare sey boldely
                                
                                  ffor as men seyn / he can do craftely
                                
                                  Algate I wote wele / he hath soch a name
                                
                                  and yitte full oft he renneth in a blame
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                                  And wote ye how / full oft it happeth so
                                
                                  The pot to-breketh / and fare-wele all is goo /
                                
                                  Thise metals ben / of so grete violence [Eg. 2726 folio 229a] 
                                
                                  Our walles mow nat make hem resistence
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                                  But yf they weren wrought of lyme and stoon
                                
                                  They percen so / and thurgh the wall þey goon
                                
                                  And som of hem / synk in-to the ground
                                
                                  Thus han we lost / by tymes / many a pound
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                                  And som arn skatered / all the flore about/
                                
                                  Som lepe in-to the roof / withouten dout/
                                
                                  Though þat the fende / nat in our sight hym shewe
                                
                                  I trowe he with vs be / that ylk shrewe
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                                  In hell / where he lorde is and syre
                                
                                  Nys ther more woo / ne more rancour / ne Ire
                                
                                  Whan þat our pot / is broke / as I haue seid
                                
                                  Euery man chitte / and halt hym evill appayed
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                                  Som seyn / it was long on the fire makyng
                                
                                  Som seiden nay / it was on the blowyng
                                
                                  Than was I ferde / for that was myn office
                                
                                  Strawe koth the thirde / ye be leude and nyce
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                                  It was nat tempred / as it was wont to be
                                
                                  Nay koth the feerth stynt/ and herken me

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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 553
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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