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

                                
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                                  That he hath dronke / he speketh in his nose
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                                  And fneseth faste / and eek he hath the pose
                                
                                  ¶ He hath also / to do moore than ynough
                                
                                  To kepen hym and his Capul out of slough
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                                  And if he falle / from his capul eftsoone
                                
                                  Thanne shal we alle / haue ynogh to doone
                                
                                  In liftyng vp / his heuy dronken cors
                                
                                  Telle on thy tale / of hym make I no fors
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                                  ¶ But yet Manciple / in feith thou art/ to nyce
                                
                                  Thus openly / repreue hym of his vice
                                
                                  Another day / he wole perauenture
                                
                                  Reclayme thee / and brynge thee to lure
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                                  I meene / he speke wole / of smale thynges
                                
                                  As for to pynchen / at thy rekenynges
                                
                                  That were nat honeste / if it cam to preef /
                                
                                  ¶ No quod the Manciple / that were a greet mescheef
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                                  So myghte he lightly / brynge me in the snare
                                
                                  Yet hadde I leuere / payen for the Mare
                                
                                  Which that he rit on / than he sholde with me stryue [folio 207a] 
                                
                                  I wol nat wratthen hym / al so moot I thryue
                                
                                  That that/ I speke / I seyde it in my bourde
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                                  And wite ye what I haue heer in a gourde
                                
                                  A draghte of wyn / ye of a ripe grape
                                
                                  And right anon / ye shul seen a good Iape
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                                  This Cook shal drynke ther of / if þat I may
                                
                                  Vp peyne of deeth / he wol nat seye me nay
                                
                                  ¶ And certeynly / to tellen as it was
                                
                                  Of this vessel / the Cook drank faste / allas?
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                                  What neded hym / he drank ynough biforn
                                
                                  And whan he hadde / pouped in this horn
                                
                                  To the Manciple / he took the gourde agayn
                                
                                  And of that drynke / the Cook was wonder fayn
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                                  And thanked hym / in swich wise as he koude
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne gan oure hoost to laughen wonder loude
                                
                                  And seyde / I se wel / it is necessarie
                                
                                  Where þat we goon / þat drynke we with vs carie

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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 574
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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