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

                                  
                                    AT Trumpyngton nought fer fro Cantabregge
                                  
                                    Ther goþ a brook and ouer þat a bregge
                                  
                                    vppon þe whiche brook þer stant a Melle
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                                    And þis is verray soþ þat I ȝou telle [folio 55b] 
                                  
                                    A meller was þer duellyng many a day
                                  
                                    As any pecok he was proud and gay
                                  
                                    Pype he couþe and fissche and nettes beete
                                  
                                    And torne coppes and wel wrastle and scheete/
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                                    Ay by his belt he bar a long Panade
                                  
                                    And of a swerd ful trenchant was þe blade/
                                  
                                    A Ioly popper bar he in his pouche
                                  
                                    Ther was noman for peril durste him touche/
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                                    A scheffeld thwitel bar he in his hose
                                  
                                    Round was his face and Camuse was his nose/
                                  
                                    As pyled as an ape was his sculle
                                  
                                    he was a market betere atte fulle
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                                    Ther was no wight þat dorst hand on him legge
                                  
                                    But if he swor he scholde anon abegge
                                  
                                    A þeef he was forsoþe of corn and mele
                                  
                                    And þat a sleigh and vsaunt for to stele
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                                    his name was hoote deynous Symkyn
                                  
                                    A wijf he hadde come of noble kyn
                                  
                                    The parsoun of þe toun hir fader was/
                                  
                                    With hire he yaf ful many a panne of bras
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                                    ffor þat Symkyn scholde in his blood allye
                                  
                                    Sche was y-fostred in a Nonnerie/
                                  
                                    ffor symkyn wolde no wyf as he sayde
                                  
                                    But sche were wel ynorissched and a mayde/
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                                    To sauen his estate of yomanrie/
                                  
                                    And sche was proud and pert as is a pye
                                  
                                    A ful fair sight was it vppon hem tuo
                                  
                                    On halidayes biforn hire wolde he go

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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 113
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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