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

                                
                                     [6-text p 379] 
                                  
                                  As ferforþly as euere were ȝe foled
                                
                                  So moche woo as I haue for ȝou þoled
                                
                                  þe deuel haue al boþe hors and cart and hey
                                
                                  þoughte þis somnour he schulle we haue a pley
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                                  And neer þe feend he drough as nought ne were
                                
                                  fful priuely and rouned in his eere
                                
                                  herkne my broþer herkne by þy feiþ
                                
                                  herestow nat how þe cartere seiþ
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                                  hente it anone for he haþ ȝiuen þe
                                
                                  Boþe hey and carte and eek his caples þre /
                                
                                  Nay quod þe deuyl god not neuer a del
                                
                                  It is not his entente truste me wel
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                                  Aske him þiself if þou nat trowest me
                                
                                  Or elles stynte a while and þou schalt se
                                
                                  This carter þakked his hors on þe croupe /
                                
                                  And þey bygonne to drawe and to stoupe /
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                                  hayt now quod he þat Ihesu crist ȝou blisse
                                
                                  And alle his hondywerk boþe more and lesse /
                                
                                  þat was wel twight myn owne lyard boy
                                
                                  I pray god saue þe and seinte Loy.
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                                  Now is my carte out/ of þe slough par de
                                
                                  lo broþer quod þe feend what tolde I þe /
                                
                                  here may ye see myn oughne deere broþer
                                
                                  The carle spak o þing but he þought anoþer
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                                  late vs go forþ abouten oure viage
                                
                                  here wynne I noþing vpon cariage
                                
                                  Whan þat þey comen somwhat out of þe toun
                                
                                  Þis somnour to his broþer gan to roun
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                                  Broþer quod he here woneþ an old rebekke [folio 119b] 
                                
                                  That hadde almost as leef to leese hire necke
                                
                                  As for to ȝiue a peny of hire good
                                
                                  I wil haue twelue pens þough þat sche be wood
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                                  Or I wille sompne hire to oure office
                                
                                  And ȝit god woot of hire knowe I no vice
                                
                                  But for þou canst nat as in þis contre
                                
                                  Wynne þi coste tak here ensample of/ me

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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 258
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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