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

                                
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                                  ¶ Wel quod the Manciple / if it may don ese
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                                  To thee sir Cook/ and to no wight displese
                                
                                  Which þat here rideth / in this compaignye
                                
                                  And þat oure hoost/ wole of his curteisye
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                                  I wole as now / excuse thee of thy tale
                                
                                  ffor in good feith / thy visage is ful pale
                                
                                  Thyne eyen daswen eek/ as þat me thynketh
                                
                                  And wel I woot thy breth ful soure stynketh
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                                  That sheweth wel / thow art nat wel disposed
                                
                                  Of me certeyn / thow shalt nat ben yglosed
                                
                                  Se how he ganeth / lo this dronken wight
                                
                                  As though he wolde / swolwe vs anon right
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                                  Hoold cloos thy mouth / man by thy fader kyn
                                
                                  The deuel of helle / sette his foot ther yn
                                
                                  Thy cursed breeth / infecte wol vs alle
                                
                                  ffy stynkynge swyn / fy / foule mote thee falle
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                                  A taketh hede sires / of this lusty man
                                
                                  Now swete sire / wol ye Iusten atte ffan
                                
                                  Ther-to me thynketh / ye ben wel y-shape
                                
                                  I trowe / þat ye dronken han wyn Ape
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                                  And that is / whan men pleyen with a straw
                                
                                  And with his speche / the Cook wax wroth & wraw
                                
                                  And on the Manciple / bigan he nodde faste [folio 108a] 
                                
                                  ffor lakke of speche / and doun the hors hym caste
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                                  Wher as he lay / til þat men vp hym took
                                
                                  This was / a fair chyuachee of a Cook
                                
                                  Allas / he nadde yholde hym / by his ladel
                                
                                  And er þat he / agayn were in his sadel
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                                  Ther was gret showuyng bothe to and fro
                                
                                  To lifte hym vp / and muchel care and wo
                                
                                  So vnweldy / was this sory palled goost
                                
                                  And to the Manciple / thanne spak oure hoost
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                                  ¶ By cause // drynke hath domynacion
                                
                                  Vp on this man / by my sauacion
                                
                                  I trowe he lewedly / telle wolde his tale
                                
                                  ffor were it wyn / or old / or moisty Ale

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 246
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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