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

                                
                                  Myn wit is schort ȝe may wel vndyrstonde
                                
                                  Gret chere mad oure ost vs euerychon
                                
                                  And to the soper sette he vs a-non
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                                  He seruede vs with vitayle at the beste
                                
                                  Strong was the wyn & wel to drynke vs liste
                                
                                  A semely man oure ost was with al
                                
                                  ffor to ben a marchal of an hal
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                                  A large man he was with eyne stepe
                                
                                  A fayrere burgeys is þere non in chepe.
                                
                                  Bold of hese speche & wis & wel I-tauȝt
                                
                                  And of manhod hym lakkede ryȝt noȝt [[noȝt: later]]  [[Cambridge stops till l. 965]] 
                                
                                  Eke therto he was right a mery man [Sloane MS. 1685 folio 2b] 
                                
                                  And aftir soper pleyn he bygan.
                                
                                  And spak of mirthe among and othere thingis
                                
                                  Whanne that he hadde mad oure rykenynges
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                                  And seide thus now lordyngis trewly
                                
                                  Ye ben to me welcome ryght hertily
                                
                                  ffor certis yf that I shal not lye
                                
                                  I sawe nought this yere so mery a companye
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                                  At ones in this herborowe as it now
                                
                                  ffayn wolde I don you myrthe wiste I how
                                
                                  And of a myrthe I am right now bithought
                                
                                  To don yow ese and it shal coste nought.
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                                  Ye gon to Caunterbery god yow spede
                                
                                  The blisfull martir quyte you youre mede
                                
                                  And wel I wote as ye gon by the weye
                                
                                  Ye schapen yow to talen and to pleye
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                                  ffor truly comfort ne mirthe is noon
                                
                                  To riden by the weye doumbe as a stoon
                                
                                  And therfore wole y maken you disport
                                
                                  As I seide arst and don yow som comfort /.
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                                  And if yow liketh alle by oon assent
                                
                                  fforto stonden att my Iuggement
                                
                                  And forto werken as I shal yow seye
                                
                                  To morowe whanne ye riden by the weye
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                                  Now so god saue me at my most nede

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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 22
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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