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

                                
                                  And in þe floor with nose & mouth to-broke
                                
                                  They walwe as don too piggis in a poke
                                
                                  And vp þey gon & don a-geyn a-non [folio 191b] 
                                
                                  Tyl þat þe mellere spurnede aȝen a ston
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                                  And doun he fyl bakward vp on hese wif
                                
                                  That wiste no þyng of þis nyse stryf
                                
                                  ffor sche was falle a slepe a lyte wyght
                                
                                  With Iohn þe clerk þat wakede al nyȝt
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                                  And with þe fal out of here slep sche bryde
                                
                                  Help holy croys of bromeholm sche seyde
                                
                                  In manus tuas lord to þe I calle
                                
                                  A-wake symond þe fend is on vs falle
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                                  Myn herte is brokyn allas I ne am but ded
                                
                                  There lyth on vp on myn wombe & on myn hed
                                
                                  Help symkyn for þe false klerkys fyȝte
                                
                                  This Iohn styrte vp as faste as euere he myȝte
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                                  And graspith by the walle to & fra
                                
                                  To fynde a staf & sche styrte vp alswa
                                
                                  And knew þe estis betere þan dede þis Iohn
                                
                                  And bi þe wal a staf sche fond a-non
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                                  And saw a lytyl schemeryng of a lyȝt
                                
                                  ffor at an hole in schon þe mone bryt [[corrected]] 
                                
                                  And by þat lyȝt sche say hem boþe too
                                
                                  But sekyrly sche nyste ho was who
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                                  But as sche say a whit thyng in here eye
                                
                                  And whan sche gan þe whyte þyng espye
                                
                                  Sche wende þe clerk hadde wered a wolyper
                                
                                  And with the staf sche drow ay ner & ner
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                                  And wende an hit þes aleyn at þe fulle
                                
                                  And smot þe mellere on þe pylede sculle
                                
                                  And doun he goth harow I deye
                                
                                  These clerkys bete hym wel & lete hym lye
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                                  And hastede hem & toke here leue a-non
                                
                                  And ek here mele & on here woye þey gon
                                
                                  And at þe melle ȝit þey toke here kake
                                
                                  Of half a buschel flour wol wel I-bake

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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 123
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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