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

                                
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                                  As ferforthly / as euere were ye foled [folio 83b] 
                                
                                  So muche wo / as I haue with yow tholed
                                
                                  The deuel haue al / bothe hors and Cart and hey
                                
                                  ¶ This Somonour seyde / heere shal we haue a pley
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                                  And neer the feend he drough / as noght ne were
                                
                                  fful priuely / and rowned in his ere
                                
                                  Herkne my brother / herkne by thy feith
                                
                                  Herestow nat how þat the Cartere seith
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                                  Hent it anon / for he hath yeue it thee
                                
                                  Bothe hey and Cart and eek hise caples thre
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod the deuel / god woot neuer a deel
                                
                                  It is nat his entente / trust thou me weel
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                                  Axe hym thy self if thou nat trowest me
                                
                                  Or elles stynt a while / and thou shalt see
                                
                                  ¶ This Cartere / taketh his hors on the croupe
                                
                                  And they bigonne drawen and to stoupe
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                                  Heyt now quod he / ther Ihesu crist yow blesse
                                
                                  And al his handwerk bothe moore and lesse
                                
                                  That was wel twight myn owene lyard boy
                                
                                  I pray to god saue thee / and seint loy
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                                  Now is my Cart out of the slow pardee
                                
                                  ¶ Lo brother quod the feend / what tolde I thee
                                
                                  Heere may ye se / myn owene deere brother
                                
                                  The carl spak oon / but he thoghte another
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                                  Lat vs go forth / abouten oure viage
                                
                                  Heere / wynne I no thyng vp-on cariage
                                
                                  ¶ Whan that they coomen / som-what out of towne
                                
                                  This Somonour / to his brother gan to rowne
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                                  Brother quod he / heere woneth an old rebekke
                                
                                  That hadde almoost as lief to lese hire nekke
                                
                                  As for to yeue / a peny of hir good
                                
                                  I wole han .xij. pens / though þat she be wood
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                                  Or I wol sompne hire / vn-to oure office
                                
                                  And yet god woot of hire knowe I no vice
                                
                                  But for thou kanst nat as in this contree
                                
                                  Wynne thy cost taak heer ensample of me

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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 212
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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