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

                                
                                  But ye be merie I wole yeue yow myn heede [[Sloane MS. 1685]] 
                                
                                  Holde up youre hondis withoute more speche
                                
                                  Oure councel was not long forto seche
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                                  Vs thought it was not worth to make to wys
                                
                                  And grauntide hym withouten more avys.
                                
                                  And bade hym seie his verdoit as hym liste
                                
                                  Lordlyngis quod he herkeneth now for the beste
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                                  But take it nought / I praie ȝow in disdeigne
                                
                                  This is the poynt to speke short and pleigne
                                
                                  That eche of yow to short with oure weye
                                
                                  In this viage shal telle tales tweye
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                                  To caunterbury ward I mene it so
                                
                                  And homward he shal tellen other two
                                
                                  Of auentoures that haue bifalle
                                
                                  And which of yow that berith him best of alle
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                                  That is to seyn that tellith in this cas
                                
                                  Tales of best sentence and moost solas
                                
                                  Shal haue a souper/ at oure aldercost
                                
                                  Here in this place sittynge bi this post
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                                  Whanne that we comen ageyn fro Cauntirbury
                                
                                  And forto make yow the more myry
                                
                                  I wole my siluen goodly with ȝou ride
                                
                                  Right at myn owne caste and be youre gyde
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                                  And who so wole my iugement withseye
                                
                                  Shal paye al that we spende by the weye
                                
                                  And if ye vouche saaf that it be so
                                
                                  Telle me anoon without ony word moo
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                                  And I wole erly shape me therfore
                                
                                  This thing was graunted and oure othes swore
                                
                                  With ful glad herte and preien him also
                                
                                  That he wolde vouche saaf forto do soo
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                                  And that he wolde be oure gouernour
                                
                                  And of oure tales Iugge and reportour/
                                
                                  And sette a soper / at a certeyn prys
                                
                                  And we wolen reuled ben at youre deuys
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                                  In high and logh and thus by oon assent

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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 23
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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