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

                                
                                  Be-hynde þe melle vndyr a leuesel
                                
                                  And to þe hors he goth fayre & wel
                                
                                  He strepith of þe brydil ryght a-non
                                
                                  And whan þe hors was los he gynnyth gon
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                                  Toward þe fen þere wilde marys renne [folio 188b] 
                                
                                  And forth with wehe þour theke & thorw thenne
                                
                                  This mellere gooth a-ȝen / no word he seyde
                                
                                  But doth his note & with þe clerkis pleyede
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                                  Til þat here corn was wel & fayre grounde
                                
                                  And whan þe mele is salkyd & I-bounde
                                
                                  This Iohn goth out & fynt his hors away
                                
                                  And gan to crye harow & weyleaway
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                                  Oure hors is lorn aleyn for godys bonys
                                
                                  Step on thyn foot Aleyn come of atonys
                                
                                  Allas oure wardeyn has hese palfrey lorn
                                
                                  This aleyn for-gat bothe mele & corn
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                                  Al was out of hese mynde hese hosebondrye
                                
                                  What whedir is he gon he gan to crye
                                
                                  The wyf cam lepynge inward with a ren
                                
                                  Sche seyde alas ȝoure hors goth to þe fen
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                                  Wyth wylde marys as faste as sche may go
                                
                                  Vn-thank come on hese hand þat bond hym so
                                
                                  And he þat betere schulde a knyt þe reyne
                                
                                  Allas quod aleyn for crystis peyne
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                                  Ley doun þyn swerd / & I wele myn al swa
                                
                                  I is ful wyȝt god woot as is a raa
                                
                                  By goddis herte / he schal nat skape vs baþe
                                
                                  Whi ne haddist þou pit þe capyl in þe lathe
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                                  Ille hayl aleyn be god þou is a fonne
                                
                                  These sely clerkis han ful faste I-ronne
                                
                                  Toward þe fen / bothe aleyn & ek Iohn
                                
                                  And whan þe mellere saw þat þey were gon
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                                  He half a buschel of here flour hath take
                                
                                  And bad hese wif gon knede it in a kake
                                
                                  He seyde I trowe þe clerkys were a-feryd
                                
                                  Ȝit can a mellere make a clerkys berd

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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 117
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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