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

                                
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                                  And whan þat he com / he gan to crie
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                                  God saue quod he / this ioly companie
                                
                                  ffaste haue I priked / quod he for ȝoure sake
                                
                                  Be cause þat I wolde / ȝow ouertake
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                                  To ryden / in þis mery companie
                                
                                  His yoman eke / was ful of curtesie
                                
                                  And sire now // in the morwe tyde
                                
                                  Out of ȝoure Hostery / I saugh ȝow ryde [Lichfield MS folio 172b] 
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                                  And warned here / my lord and my souerayn
                                
                                  which þat to ride / with ȝow is ful fayn
                                
                                  ffor his disport / he loueth daliaunce
                                
                                  And for þi warnyng / god ȝeue þe good chaunce
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                                  Saide oure hoost / certes it wolde seme
                                
                                  Thy lord were wys . and so I may wel deme
                                
                                  He is ful iocunde / also dar I leye
                                
                                  Can he ought telle / a mery tale or tweye
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                                  with whiche / he glade . may þis companye
                                
                                  who sire my lord / ȝe ȝe withoute lye
                                
                                  He can of merthe / and eek of iolyte
                                
                                  Nouȝt but ynogh / also sire trusteth me
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                                  And ȝe him knewe / as wel as do I
                                
                                  Ȝe wolde wondre / how wel and thriftily
                                
                                  He couthe werke / and þat in sondry wise
                                
                                  He hath taken on him / many greet apprise
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                                  Whiche were ful hard / for any þat is here
                                
                                  To bringe aboute / but þei of him it lere
                                
                                  As homely as he rit / amonges ȝow
                                
                                  Ȝif ye him knewe / it wolde be ȝoure prow
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                                  Ȝe wolde not forgoon / his aqueyntance
                                
                                  ffor moche good / I dar leye in balance
                                
                                  Al þat I haue / in my possession
                                
                                  he is a man / of high discrecion
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                                  I warne ȝow wel / he is a passinge man
                                
                                  Wel quod oure hoost I pray þe tel me þan
                                
                                  Is he clerk or noon / tel what he is
                                
                                  Nay he is gretter / than a Clerk ywis

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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 #715
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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