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

                                
                                  ffor al here art now lat hem gon here woye
                                
                                  Lo where he goth þat lat þe childeryn pleye
                                
                                  They gete hym not so lyȝtely / be myn croun
                                
                                  These sely clerkys rennen vp & doun
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                                  Wyth kep kep / stand stand stand Iossa ware þe rere [folio 189a] 
                                
                                  Ga whystele thow & I schal kepe hymm here
                                
                                  But schortly til þat it was veray nyght
                                
                                  They coude not Thow they don al here myȝt
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                                  Here capil cache he ran al wey so faste
                                
                                  Tyl in a dych þey caughte hym at þe laste
                                
                                  Wery & wet as beste is in þe reyn
                                
                                  Comyth sely ion & with hym comyth aleyn
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                                  Allas quod Iohn þe day þat I was born
                                
                                  Now are we dreuyn tyl hethng & to scorn
                                
                                  Oure corn is stole men wele vs folys calle
                                
                                  Boþe þe wardayn & oure felas alle
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                                  And namely þe mellere weyleawey
                                
                                  Thus pleynyth Iohn as he goth be þe wey
                                
                                  Toward þe melle / & bayard in hese hond
                                
                                  The mellere sittynge by þe fyr he fond
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                                  ffor it was nyȝt & ferþere myȝte þey nought
                                
                                  But for þe loue of god þey hym be-sought
                                
                                  Of herberwe & of ese for here peny
                                
                                  The mellere seyde a-geyn ȝif þere be eny
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                                  Swich as it is ȝit schal ȝe haue ȝoure part
                                
                                  Myn hous is streyt but ȝe han lernede art
                                
                                  Ȝe cunne with argumentis make a place
                                
                                  A myle brod of twenty fote of space
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                                  Let se now ȝif þis space may suffyse
                                
                                  Or make it roum with speche as is ȝoure gyse
                                
                                  Now symond seyde Iohn be seynt Cutbert
                                
                                  Ay art þou merye & þis is fayre answeryd
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                                  I haue herd seyd men schal tan of too thyngis
                                
                                  Swich as he fynd or take swich as he bryngis
                                
                                  But specially I preye þe hoot & deere
                                
                                  Gete vs sum mete & drynk & make vs chere

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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 118
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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