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

                                
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                                  Now eteþ ȝoure mete and leteþ him go pleye
                                
                                  lete him go hange himself a deuelweye [[The Solution of the "Probleme" by the Lord's Squire. No break in the MS.]] 
                                
                                  Now stood þe lordes squier at þe bord
                                
                                  þat karf here mete and herde word for word
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                                  Of alle þing of which I haue ȝou sayd
                                
                                  my lord quod he beþ not yuele payd
                                
                                  I couþe telle for a gowne cloþ
                                
                                  To ȝou sir frere so ȝe ben nat wroþ
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                                  how þat þis fart scholde euene deled be
                                
                                  Among ȝour couent/ if it like me
                                
                                  Telle on quod þe lord and þou schalt haue anon
                                
                                  A gowne cloþ by god and by seint Iohn
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                                  My lord quod he whan þat þe weder is faire
                                
                                  Wiþouten wynd or pertourbyng of ayre
                                
                                  let bringe a cart whel heer in-to þis halle
                                
                                  But loke þat he haue his spokes alle
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                                  xij. spokes haþ a carte whel comunly [folio 129a] 
                                
                                  And bringe me þanne .xij. freres wite ȝe why
                                
                                  ffor .xiij. is a couent as I gesse
                                
                                  ȝoure confessour hede for his worþinesse
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                                  Schal performe vp þe nombre of his couent
                                
                                  þanne schullen þey knelen doun by oon assent
                                
                                  And to euery spokes ende in þis manere
                                
                                  fful sadly leye his nose schal þe freere
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                                  ȝoure noble confessour þere god him saue
                                
                                  Schal holde his nose vpright vnto þe naue
                                
                                  þanne schal þis cherl wiþ bely styf and touȝt
                                
                                  As any tabour hider ben y-brought
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                                  And sette him on þe wheel right on þis carte
                                
                                  vpon þe naue and make him lete a farte
                                
                                  And ȝe schuln se vp peril of my lijf
                                
                                  By preof which þat is demonstratif

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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 279
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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