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

                                
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                                  And speke as renably / and faire and wel
                                
                                  As to the Phitonissa / dide Samuel
                                
                                  And yet wol som men seye / it was nat he
                                
                                  I do no fors / of youre dyuynytee
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                                  But o thyng warne I thee / I wol nat Iape
                                
                                  Thou wolt algates / wite how we been shape
                                
                                  Thou shalt herafterwardes / my brother deere
                                
                                  Come there / thee nedeth nat of me to leere
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                                  ffor thou shalt by thyn owene experience
                                
                                  Konne in a chayer / rede of this sentence
                                
                                  Bet than Virgile / while he was on lyue
                                
                                  Or Dant also / now lat vs ryde blyue
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                                  ffor I wole / holde compaignye with thee
                                
                                  Til it be so / that thou forsake me
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod this Somonour / that shal nat bityde
                                
                                  I am a yeman / knowen is ful wyde
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                                  My trouthe wol I holde / as in this cas
                                
                                  ffor though thou were / the deuel Sathanas
                                
                                  My trouthe wol I holde / to my brother
                                
                                  As I am sworn / and ech of vs til oother
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                                  ffor to be trewe brother / in this cas
                                
                                  And bothe we goon / abouten oure purchas
                                
                                  Taak thou thy part what þat men wol thee yeue
                                
                                  And I shal myn / thus may we bothe lyue
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                                  And if þat any of vs / haue moore than oother
                                
                                  Lat hym be trewe / and parte it with his brother
                                
                                  ¶ I graunte quod the deuel / by my fey
                                
                                  And with that word / they ryden forth hir wey
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                                  And right at the entryng of the townes ende
                                
                                  To which this Somonour / shoope hym for to wende
                                
                                  They saugh a Cart that charged was with hey
                                
                                  Which þat a Cartere / droof forth in his wey
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                                  Deepe was the wey / for which the Carte stood
                                
                                  The Cartere smoot and cryde / as he were wood
                                
                                  Hayt Brok / hayt Scot what spare ye for the stones
                                
                                  The feend quod he / yow fecche body and bones

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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 211
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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