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

                                
                                  ffor all his art yet lat hem gon here weye
                                
                                  Lo where he goþ ye lat þe children pleye
                                
                                  They gete him nought so lightly by my croun
                                
                                  Thise seely clerkes rennen vp and doun
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                                  With keep. keep. stand. stand. iossa. warderere /
                                
                                  Ga whistel þou and I schal keepe him heere
                                
                                  But schortly til it was verray night
                                
                                  They couþe nought þough þei dede all here might [folio 58a] 
                                
                                  here capel cacche he ran alwey so faste
                                
                                  Til in a diche þei caught him atte laste
                                
                                  Wery and wet as beest is in þe rayn
                                
                                  Comeþ seely Iohn and with him comþ alayn
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                                  ¶ Allas quod Iohn þe day þat I was born
                                
                                  Now ere we dryuen til hething and til scorn
                                
                                  Oure corn is stole men wil vs fooles calle
                                
                                  Boþe þe wardein and oure felawes alle
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                                  And namely þe meller weylawey
                                
                                  Thus pleyneþ Iohan as he goþ by þe wey
                                
                                  Toward þe melle and bayard in his hond
                                
                                  The meller sittyng by þe fyr he fond
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                                  ffor it was nyght and ferþer might he nought
                                
                                  But for þe loue of god þei him bisought
                                
                                  Of herberwe and of eese as for here peny
                                
                                  The mellere seyde agayn if þer be eny
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                                  Such as if is ȝit schal ȝe haue ȝoure part
                                
                                  Myn hous is streit but ȝe han lerned art
                                
                                  Ȝe can by argumentes make a place
                                
                                  A myle brood of twenty foote of space
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                                  lat se now if þis place mow suffise
                                
                                  Or make it rowmere with speche as is ȝoure gyse
                                
                                  Now Symond seyde þis Iohn by seint Cuthberd
                                
                                  As is þou mery and þat is faire answerd
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                                  I haue herd say men sal take of tua þinges
                                
                                  Swilk as he fyndes or take swilk as he brynges/
                                
                                  But specially I pray þe ooste deere
                                
                                  Gete vs som mete and drynk and mak vs cheere

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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 118
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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