The Hengwrt 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 ynow
                                
                                  To kepen hym / and his capil / out of the Slow
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                                  And if he falle / from his capil eft soone
                                
                                  Than shal we alle / haue ynow to doone
                                
                                  In liftynge vp / his heuy dronken cors
                                
                                  Telle on thy tale / of hym make I no fors
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                                  But yet Manciple / in feith thow art to nyce
                                
                                  Thus openly / repreue hym of his vice
                                
                                  Another day / he wole par Auenture
                                
                                  Reclayme thee / and brynge thee to lure
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                                  I mene / 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 gret mescheef
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                                  So myghte he lightly / brynge me in the snare
                                
                                  Yet hadde I leuere / payen for the Mare
                                
                                  Which he rit on / than he sholde with me stryue
                                
                                  I wol nat wrathe hym / also mote I thryue
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                                  That þat I spak I seyde it in my bourde
                                
                                  And wite what I haue here in a gourde
                                
                                  A draughte of wyn / ye of a rype grape
                                
                                  And right anon / ye shul seen a good Iape
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                                  This Cook/ shal drynke ther of if I may
                                
                                  Vp peyne of deeth / he wol nat seye me nay
                                
                                  [ [Rats.] An]d certeynly / to tellen as it was
                                
                                  Of this vessel / the Cook drank faste / allas
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                                  What neded it he drank ynow biforn
                                
                                  And whan he hadde / powped 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 kowde
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne gan oure hoost to laughen wonder lowde
                                
                                  And seyde / I se wel it is necessarie
                                
                                  Where þat we goon / good drynke we with vs carye

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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 247
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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