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

                                
                                  And Iohn also how now what do ȝe here
                                
                                  Symond quod Iohn bi god nede has no pere
                                
                                  He muste serue hym self þat has no sweyn
                                
                                  Or ellis he is a fol as clerkis seyn
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                                  Oure maunciple I hope he wele be ded [folio 188a] 
                                
                                  Swa werkis ay / þe wangis in hese hed
                                
                                  And þerfore is I come & ek aleyn
                                
                                  To grynde oure corn & carie it hom a-geyn
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                                  I prey ȝow spede vs hene as ȝe may
                                
                                  It schal be don quod symkyn be myn fay
                                
                                  What wel ȝe don whil þat it is in hande
                                
                                  By god ryȝt by þe hopyr wele I stande
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                                  Quod Ion & sen how þe corn goth in
                                
                                  Ȝit saw I neuere be myn fadir kyn
                                
                                  How þat þe hopir wagis to & fra
                                
                                  Aleyn answerede & seyde wist þou swa
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                                  Thanne wele I be beneth bi myn croun
                                
                                  And sen how þat þe mele fallyth don
                                
                                  In to þe trow þat schal ben myn dysport
                                
                                  ffor Iohn yfayth I may ben of ȝore sort
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                                  I is as ille a mellere as is ȝe
                                
                                  This mellere smylede of here nysetee
                                
                                  And thouȝte al þis it nys don but for a wyle
                                
                                  They wene þat no man may hem be-gyle
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                                  But be myn thryft / ȝit wele I blere here ye
                                
                                  ffor al þe sleyȝte in here philosofye
                                
                                  The more queynte crokede þat þey make
                                
                                  The more wele I stele whan I take
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                                  In stede of flour / ȝit wele I ȝeue hēm bren
                                
                                  The gretteste clerkys ben not wyseste men
                                
                                  As whilom to þe wolf þus spak þe mare
                                
                                  Of al here art I counte not a tare
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                                  Out at þe dore he goth ful pryuyly
                                
                                  Whan þat he saw hese tyme softely
                                
                                  He lokyth vp & doun tyl he haue founde
                                
                                  The clerkys hors þere as it stod I-bounde

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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 116
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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