The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And in the floor / with nose and mouth to-broke
                                
                                  They walwe / as doon two pigges in a poke
                                
                                  And vp they goon / and doun agayn anon
                                
                                  Til that the Millere / sporned at a stoon
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                                  And doun he fil / bakward vp on his wyf/
                                
                                  That wiste no thyng / of this nyce stryf/
                                
                                  ffor she was falle aslepe a lite wight
                                
                                  With Iohn the clerk / that waked hadde al nyght
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                                  And with the fal / out of hir sleepe she breyde
                                
                                  Help hooly croys of Bromholm / she seyde
                                
                                  In manus tuas / lord to thee I calle
                                
                                  Awak Symond / the feend is on vs falle
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                                  Myn herte is broken / help I nam but deed
                                
                                  Ther lyth oon / vp on my wombe / and on myn heed
                                
                                  Helpe Symkyn / for the false clerkes fighte
                                
                                  ¶ This Iohn stirte vp / as soone as euer he myghte
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                                  And graspeth by the walles to and fro
                                
                                  To fynde a staf / and she stirte vp also
                                
                                  And knewe the Estres / bet than dide this Iohn
                                
                                  And by the wal / a staf she foond anon
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                                  And saugh / a litel shymeryng of a light
                                
                                  ffor at an hole / In shoon the moone bright
                                
                                  And by that light she saugh hem bothe two
                                
                                  But sikerly / she nyste / who was who
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                                  But as she saugh / a whit thyng in hir eye
                                
                                  And whan she gan / the white thyng espye
                                
                                  She wende the clerk hadde wered a volupeer
                                
                                  And with the staf / she drough ay neer and neer
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                                  And wende han hit this Aleyn at the fulle
                                
                                  And smoot the Millere / on the pyled skulle
                                
                                  And doun he gooth / and cride harrow I dye
                                
                                  Thise clerkes beete hym weel / and lete hym lye
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                                  And greythen hem / and tooke hir hors anon
                                
                                  And eek hire mele / and on hir wey they gon
                                
                                  And at the Mille / yet they tooke hir cake
                                
                                  Of half a busshel flour / ful wel ybake

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 123
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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