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

                                
                                  And nameliche þer was a gret collegge
                                
                                  Men clepeþ þe Soler halle of Cantabregge
                                
                                  Þere was here whete and eek here malt y-grounde
                                
                                  And on a day it happeþ in a stounde
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                                  Syk lay þe manciple on a maladie/
                                
                                  Men wenden wisly þat he schulde dye
                                
                                  ffor which þis mellere stal boþe mele and corn
                                
                                  An hundred tyme more þanne biforn [folio 56b] 
                                
                                  ffor þer biforn he stal but curteysly
                                
                                  But now he was a theef outrageously
                                
                                  ffor which þe wardein chidde and made fare/
                                
                                  But þer-of sette þe meller nought a tare/
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                                  he crakede bost and swor it was nought so/
                                
                                  Thanne were þere ȝonge scoleres tuo
                                
                                  That dwelten in þe halle of which I seye
                                
                                  Testyf þey were and lusty for to pleye
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                                  And oonly for here mirthe and reuerye
                                
                                  vpon þe wardein bisily þei crye
                                
                                  To ȝif hem leue but a litel stounde
                                
                                  To go to melle and seen here corn y-grounde
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                                  And hardily þei dorste leye here nekke
                                
                                  The mellere schulde nat stele hem half a pekke/
                                
                                  Of corn ne by sleight ne by force hem Reue
                                
                                  And atte laste þe wardeyn yaf hem leue
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                                  Iohn hight þat oon and alayn hight þat oþer
                                
                                  Of oo toun were þei born þat highte strother
                                
                                  ffer in the North I can not telle where
                                
                                  This alayn makeþ redy all his gere
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                                  And on an hors þe sak he cast anon
                                
                                  fforþ goþ alayn þe clerk and also Iohn
                                
                                  Wiþ good swerd and wiþ bokeler by his syde
                                
                                  Iohn knew þe wey him needede no guyde/
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                                  And atte melle þe sak a doun he layth
                                
                                  Alain spak first . alhail Symon in faiþ
                                
                                  how fares þi faire doughter and þi wyf
                                
                                  Alayn welcome quod Symkyn by my lyf

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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 115
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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