The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And namely þere was a gret college
                                
                                  Men clepyth þe soler halle at cantebrege
                                
                                  There was heyre whete & here malt I-grounde
                                
                                  And on a day it happede in a stounde
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                                  Sek lay þe mauncypele on a malady [folio 187b] 
                                
                                  Men wendyn wisely þat he schulde dey
                                
                                  ffor which this mellere stal bothe mele & corn
                                
                                  An hundere tyme more þan be-forn
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                                  ffor þere be-forn he stal but curteysly
                                
                                  But now he was a thef outragyously
                                
                                  ffor whych þe wardeyn schod & made fare
                                
                                  But therof sette this mellere not a tare
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                                  He crakyth bost & swor it was not so
                                
                                  Þanne were there pore clerkys too
                                
                                  That dwelledyn in þis halle of whiche I seyde
                                
                                  Testyf þey were & lusty for to pleye
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                                  And only for here myrthe & reuerye
                                
                                  Vp on þe wardeyn besily þey crye
                                
                                  To ȝeue hem leue but a lite stounde
                                
                                  To gon to melle / to sen here corn I-grounde
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                                  And hardely þey durste leyn here nekke
                                
                                  The mellere schulde not stele hem half a pekke
                                
                                  Of corn be sleyghte ne be forse hem reue
                                
                                  And at þe laste þe wardeyn ȝaf hem leue
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                                  Ion highte þat on & aleyn hyghte þat oþer
                                
                                  Of on toun were þey born þat hyghte strother
                                
                                  ffer in the north I can not tellyn where
                                
                                  This aleyn makyth redy al hese gere
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                                  And on an hors he caste þe sak a-non
                                
                                  Forth goth aleyn þe clerk & also Ion
                                
                                  With good swerd & bokeler bi here syde
                                
                                  Ion knew þe weye hem nedyth no gyde
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                                  And at þe melle þe sak a-doun he leyth
                                
                                  Aleyn spak fyrst alheyl symound in feyth
                                
                                  How farys þyn fayre douȝtyr & thyn wif
                                
                                  Aleyn wolcome quod symkyn be myn lyf

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 115
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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