The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  That sche hadde a schip hir self allon
                                
                                  And þer-fore wost þou what is best to doon
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                                  This axeþ haste and of an hastyf þing
                                
                                  Men may nought preche or make tarying
                                
                                  Anon go gete vs faste in to þis Inne
                                
                                  A knedyng trough or elles a kemelynne
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                                  ffor ech of vs but look þat þey ben large
                                
                                  In which men mowe swymme as in a barge
                                
                                  And han þer vitailles suffisaunt
                                
                                  But for a day fy on þe remenaunt
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                                  The water schal aslake and gon a way
                                
                                  Aboute prime vpon þe nexte day
                                
                                  But Robyn may not wite of þis þi knaue/
                                
                                  Ne eek þy mayde gylle I may nought saue/
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                                  Axe nought why for þough þou axe me
                                
                                  I wol nought tellen goddes priuite
                                
                                  Sufficeþ þe but if þi wittes madde
                                
                                  To haue as gret a grace as noe hadde
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                                  Thi wif schal I wel sauen out of doute
                                
                                  Go now þi wey and speed þe heer aboute/
                                
                                  But when þou hast for hire and þe and me
                                
                                  Y-geten vs þese knedyng tubbes þre [folio 50b] 
                                
                                  Than schalt þou hang hem in þe rof ful hye
                                
                                  That noman of oure purueance espye
                                
                                  And whan þou þus hast don as I haue seyd
                                
                                  And hast oure vitailes faire in hem y-leyde
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                                  And eek an ax to smyte þe corde a tuo
                                
                                  Whan þat þe water comeþ þat we may go
                                
                                  And broke an hole an heigh vpon þe gable
                                
                                  vnto þe gardeynward ouer þe stable
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                                  That we may freely passen forþ oure wey
                                
                                  Whan þat þe grete schour is gon a wey
                                
                                  Thanne schalt þou swymme as mery I vndertake
                                
                                  As doþ þe white doke after his drake
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                                  Than wol I clepe how alison how Ioon
                                
                                  Be merie for þe flood wol passe anon

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 102
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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