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

                                
                                  We been acorded / to his Iuggement
                                
                                  And ther vp on / the wyn was fet anon
                                
                                  We dronken / and to reste wente echon
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                                  With outen / any lenger taryynge
                                
                                  Amorwe / whan þat day / gan for to sprynge
                                
                                  Vp roos oure hoost and was oure aller cok
                                
                                  And gadrede vs togidre / alle in a flok
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                                  And forth we riden / a litel moore than paas
                                
                                  Vn to the wateryng of Seint Thomas
                                
                                  And there oure hoost bigan his hors areste
                                
                                  And seyde lordynges / herkneth if yow leste
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                                  ¶ Ye woot youre foreward / and [I] it yow recorde
                                
                                  If euen song / and morwe song accorde
                                
                                  Lat se now / who shal telle the firste tale
                                
                                  As euere mote I drynke / wyn or ale
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                                  Who so be / rebel to my Iuggement
                                
                                  Shal paye / for al þat by the wey is spent
                                
                                  Now draweth cut er þat we ferrer twynne
                                
                                  He / which þat hath the shorteste shal bigynne
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                                  Sire knyght quod he / my mayster and my lord
                                
                                  Now draweth cut / for that is myn accord
                                
                                  Cometh neer quod he / my lady Prioresse
                                
                                  And ye sire clerk / lat be your shamefastnesse
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                                  Ne studieth noght / ley hond to euery man
                                
                                  Anon to drawen / euery wight bigan
                                
                                  And shortly / for to tellen as it was
                                
                                  Were it by auenture / or sort or cas
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                                  The sothe is this / the cut fil to the knyght
                                
                                  Of which / ful blithe and glad was every wyght
                                
                                  And telle he moste his tale / as was reson
                                
                                  By foreward / and by composicion
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                                  As ye han herd / what nedeth wordes mo
                                
                                  An whan this goode man / saugh þat it was so
                                
                                  As he / that wys was and obedient
                                
                                  To kepe his foreward / by his free assent
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                                  He seyde / syn I shal bigynne the game

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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 24
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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