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

                                
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                                  With scrippe and tipped staf/ ytukked hye
                                
                                  In euery hous / he gan to poure and prye
                                
                                  And beggeth mele / and chese / or elles corn
                                
                                  His felawe hadde a staf / tipped with horn
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                                  A peyre of tables / al of yuory
                                
                                  And a poyntel / polysshed fetisly
                                
                                  And wroote the names / alwey as he stood
                                
                                  Of alle folk/ that yaf hym any good
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                                  Asaunces / that he wolde for hem prey
                                
                                  Yif hym a busshel whete / Malt or Reye
                                
                                  A goddes kechyl / or a trype of chese
                                
                                  Or elles what yow lyst we may nat cheese
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                                  A goddes halfpeny / or a masse peny
                                
                                  Or yif vs of youre brawn / if ye haue eny
                                
                                  A dagon of youre blanket leeue dame
                                
                                  Oure suster deere / lo heere I write youre name
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                                  Bacon or beef/ or swich thyng as ye fynde
                                
                                  ¶ A sturdy harlot/ wente ay hem bihynde
                                
                                  That was hir hostes man / and bar a sak
                                
                                  And what men yaf hem / leyde it on his bak
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                                  And whan þat he / was out at dore anon
                                
                                  He planed awey / the names euerichon
                                
                                  That he biforn / had writen in his tables
                                
                                  He serued hem / with nyfles and with fables
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                                  ¶ Nay ther thou lixt thou Somonour quod the frere
                                
                                  ¶ Pees quod oure Hoost for cristes mooder deere
                                
                                  Tel forth thy tale / and spare it nat at al
                                
                                  ¶ So thryue I quod this Somonour / so I shal
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                                  ¶ So longe he wente hous by hous / til he
                                
                                  Cam til an hous / ther he was wont to be
                                
                                  Refresshed moore / than in an hundred placis
                                
                                  Syk lay the goode man / whos the place is
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                                  Bedrede vp-on a couche lowe he lay
                                
                                  Deus hic/ quod he / o Thomas freend good day
                                
                                  Seyde this frere / curteisly and softe [folio 86a] 
                                
                                  Thomas quod he / god yelde yow / ful ofte

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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 219
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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