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

                                
                                  But er þou go on thyng I wele þe telle
                                
                                  Whan þat þou wendyst homward be þe melle
                                
                                  Ryȝt at þe entre of þe dore be-hynde [folio 191a] 
                                
                                  Þou schat a cake of half a buschel fynde
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                                  Þat was I-makyd ryȝt of þyn owene mele
                                
                                  Which þat I halp myn fadyr for to stele
                                
                                  And goode leman god þe saue & kepe
                                
                                  And with þat word sche gan almost to wepe
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                                  Aleyn vp ryst & thoughte er þan it dawe
                                
                                  I wele gon crepe in by myn felawe
                                
                                  And fond þe cradyl with hese hand a-non
                                
                                  By god þouȝte he al wrong I haue mys gon
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                                  Myn hed is toty of myn swynk to nyȝt
                                
                                  Þat makyth me þat I go not aryȝt
                                
                                  I wot wel by þe cradyl I haue mys go
                                
                                  Here lyth þe mellere & hese wyf also
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                                  And forth he goth a twenty deleway
                                
                                  Vn to þe bed þere þat þe mellere lay
                                
                                  He wende a crepid bi hese felawe Ion
                                
                                  An by þe mellere in he crepede a-non
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                                  And cauȝte hym by þe nekke softe he spak
                                
                                  He seyde þou Iohn þou sweuenyst a-wak
                                
                                  ffor cristis soule & here a nobele game
                                
                                  ffor by þat lord þat called is seynt Iame
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                                  As I haue thryes in þe schorte nyȝt
                                
                                  Swyuyd þe melleris douȝtyr bolt vp ryȝt
                                
                                  Whil þou hast as a coward been a-gast
                                
                                  Ȝa false harlot quod þe mellere hast
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                                  A false traytour false clerk quod he
                                
                                  Thow schat ben ded be godis dynete
                                
                                  Ho durste ben so bold to disparage
                                
                                  Myn douȝtyr þat is comyn of swych lenage
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                                  And by the throte bolle he caughte aleyn
                                
                                  And he hente hym dyspitously a-geyn
                                
                                  And on þe nose he smot hym with hese fest
                                
                                  Doun ran þe blod strem vp on hese brest

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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 122
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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