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

                                
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                                  ¶ Bretheren quod he / taak kepe / what þat I seye
                                
                                  My wit is greet thogh þat I bourde and pleye
                                
                                  This tresor hath ffortune / vn-to vs ȝeuen
                                
                                  In myrthe and iolitee / oure lyf to lyuen
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                                  And lightly as it cometh / so wol we spende
                                
                                  Ey goddes precious dignytee / who wende
                                
                                  To day / that we sholde han / so fair a grace [folio 201b] 
                                
                                  But myghte this gold / be caried fro this place
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                                  Hoom to myn hous / or ellis vn-to youres
                                
                                  ffor wel ye woot that al this gold is oures
                                
                                  Thanne were we / in heigh felicitee
                                
                                  But trewely / by daye it may nat be
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                                  Men wolde seyn / þat we were theues stronge
                                
                                  And for oure owene tresor / doon vs honge
                                
                                  This tresor / moste ycaried be by nyghte
                                
                                  As wisly / and as sleyly / as it myghte
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                                  Therfore I rede / that cut amonges vs alle
                                
                                  Be drawe / and lat se / wher the cut wol falle
                                
                                  And he þat hath the cut with herte blithe
                                
                                  Shal renne to towne / and that ful swithe
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                                  And brynge vs / breed / and wyn / ful priuely
                                
                                  And two of vs / shal kepen subtilly
                                
                                  This tresor wel / and if he wol nat tarye
                                
                                  Whan it is nyght we wol this tresor carye
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                                  By oon assent wher as vs thynketh best
                                
                                  That oon of hem / the cut broghte in his fest
                                
                                  And bad hem drawe / and looke wher it wol falle
                                
                                  And it fel / on the yongeste of hem alle
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                                  And forth toward the town / he wente anon
                                
                                  And also soone / as þat he was agon
                                
                                  That oon of hem / spak thus vn-to that oother
                                
                                  Thow knowest wel / thow art my sworn brother
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                                  Thy profit wol I telle thee anon
                                
                                  Thow woost wel / þat oure felawe is agon
                                
                                  And heere is gold / and that ful greet plentee
                                
                                  That shal departed been / among vs thre

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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 464
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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