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

                                
                                     [6-text p 379] 
                                  
                                  As ferforth as euere were ȝe folyd
                                
                                  So meche woo as I haue with ȝow tholyd
                                
                                  The deuyl haue al boþe hors & carte & hey
                                
                                  The somenour seyde here schul we haue a pley
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                                  And ner þe frere he drow as nouȝt ne were
                                
                                  fful priuyly & rounnede in his ere
                                
                                  Herke myn broþer herke be thyn feith
                                
                                  Heryst þou nought how þe cartere seyth
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                                  Hende it a-non for he hath ȝouen it þe
                                
                                  Boþe hey & carte & ek his capillis thre
                                
                                  Nay quod þe deuyl neuere a del [folio 232a] 
                                
                                  It is not his entente troste wel
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                                  Axe hym thyn self ȝif þou not trostiste me
                                
                                  Or ellis stynte a-while & þou schat se
                                
                                  This cartere thakkyth hise hors vp-on þe croupe
                                
                                  And þey be-gunne to drawe & to stoupe
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                                  Hayt now quod he now Ihesu cryst ȝow blysse
                                
                                  And al hise hondwerk boþe more & lesse
                                
                                  That was wel twyȝt myn owene lyard boy
                                
                                  I preye god saue þe body & seynt loy
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                                  Now is myn carte out of the slow parde
                                
                                  Lo broþer quod þe fend what tolde I the
                                
                                  Heere may ȝe seen myn owene dere broþer
                                
                                  The cherl spak on thyng & mente a-noþer
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                                  Lat vs gon forth a-boutyn oure viage
                                
                                  Here wynne I no good vp-on caryage
                                
                                  Whan þat þey comyn sumwhat out of tounne
                                
                                  This somenour to his broþer gan to rounne
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                                  Broþer quod he here wonyth an old rebekke
                                
                                  That hadde almost as lef to lese his nekke
                                
                                  As for to ȝeue a peny of hire good
                                
                                  I wele haue twelue penys thow sche be wood
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                                  Or I wele somounne hyre to oure offys
                                
                                  And ȝit god wot can I no vys
                                
                                  But for þou canyst not as in þis cuntre
                                
                                  Wynne thyn cost take here ensaumple at me

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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 212
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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