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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                                  By cause / our fire was nat made of beche
                                
                                  That is the cause / and none other syth eche
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                                  I can nat tell / where-on it was long
                                
                                  But wele I wote grete stryf / is vs among
                                
                                  What koth my lord / there nys no more to doon
                                
                                  Of thise perels / I woll be ware eft-soon
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                                  I am right seker / þat þe pot war crased
                                
                                  Be as be may / be ye no thing amased
                                
                                  As vsage is / let swepe þe flore as swythe
                                
                                  Pluk vp your hertes / and beth glad and blythe
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                                  The mullok/ on an hepe / ysweped was
                                
                                  And on the flore yeast/ a Canvas
                                
                                  And all this mullok/ in a seue I-throwe
                                
                                  And syfted and ypiked / many a throwe
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                                  Parde koth one / somwhat of our metall
                                
                                  Yitte is ther here / þough þat we han nat all
                                
                                  and though this thyng / myshapped haue as now
                                
                                  Another tyme / it may be wele ynow
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                                  Vs most put our gode / in auenture
                                
                                  A Merchaunt parde / may nat ay endure /
                                
                                  Trusteth wele me / in his prosperitee [Eg. 2726 folio 229b] 
                                
                                  Som tyme his gode / is drowned in the see
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                                  And som tyme / comth it sauf vn-to the lond
                                
                                  Pees koth my lord / þe next tyme I woll fond
                                
                                  To bryng our Craft/ all in another plite
                                
                                  And but I doo / let me han the wyte
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                                  There was defaute / in somwhat/ wele I wote
                                
                                  Another seid / the fire was to hote
                                
                                  But be it hote or cold / I dare sey this
                                
                                  That we concluden euermore amys
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                                  We faill of that / which þat we wold haue
                                
                                  And in our madnes / euermore we raue
                                
                                  And whan we ben / togiders euerychoon
                                
                                  Euery man semeth / a Salamon
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                                  But euery thyng which þat shyneth as þe goold
                                
                                  Nys nat goold / as I haue herd toold

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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 554
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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