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

                                
                                  But if ye be myrie / I wol yeue yow myn heed
                                
                                  ¶ Hoold vp youre hond withouten moore speche
                                
                                  Oure conseil / was nat longe for to seche
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                                  Vs thoughte / it was noght worth / to make it wys
                                
                                  And graunted hym / wit outen moore auys
                                
                                  And bad him seye his voirdit as hym leste
                                
                                  ¶ Lordynges quod he / now herkneth for the beste
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                                  But taak it nought / I prey yow in desdeyn
                                
                                  This is the poynt to speken short and pleyn
                                
                                  That ech of yow / to shorte with oure weye
                                
                                  In this viage / shal telle tales tweye
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                                  To Caunterburyward / I mene it so
                                
                                  And homward / he shal tellen othere two
                                
                                  Of auentures / that whilom han bifalle
                                
                                  And which of yow / that bereth hym best of alle
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                                  That is to seyn / that telleth in this caas
                                
                                  Tales of best sentence / and moost solaas
                                
                                  Shal haue a soper / at oure aller cost
                                
                                  Heere in this place / sittynge by this post
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                                  Whan that we come agayn fro Caunterbury
                                
                                  And for to make yow / the moore mury
                                
                                  I wol my self / goodly with yow ryde
                                
                                  Right at myn owene cost and be youre gyde
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                                  And who so wole / my Iuggement withseye
                                
                                  Shal paye / al that we spenden by the weye
                                
                                  And if ye vouche sauf / that it be so
                                
                                  Tel me anon / with outen wordes mo
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                                  And I wol erly / shape me therfore
                                
                                  ¶ This thyng was graunted and oure othes swore
                                
                                  With ful glad herte / and preyden hym also
                                
                                  That he would vouche sauf / for to do so
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                                  And that he / wolde been oure gouernour
                                
                                  And of our tales / Iuge and Reportour
                                
                                  And sette a soper / at a certeyn pris
                                
                                  And we / wol reuled been at his deuys
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                                  ¶ In heigh and lough / and thus by oon assent [folio 13b]

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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 23
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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