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

                                
                                  My witt is schort ȝe may wel vnderstonde
                                
                                  Gret cheere maad oure ost vs euerychon
                                
                                  And to þe souper sette he vs anon
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                                  He serued vs with vitailles atte beste
                                
                                  Strong was þe wyn and wel drynken vs leste
                                
                                  A semly man our hoste he was with alle
                                
                                  ffor to ben a marchall in an halle
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                                  A large man he was with eyȝen stepe
                                
                                  A fairer burgeys is þer non in Chepe
                                
                                  Bold of his speche and wys and wel y-taught
                                
                                  And of manhode him lakkede right naught
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                                  Ek þer to he was right a merie man [folio 11b] 
                                
                                  And after soper pleyen he bigan
                                
                                  And spak of merþe amonges oþer þinges
                                
                                  Whan þat he hadde maad our rikenynges
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                                  And seide þus Now lordynges trewely
                                
                                  Ȝe ben to me welcome right hertely
                                
                                  ffor by my trouthe if þat I schal not lye
                                
                                  I seyh not þis yer so mery a companye
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                                  At oones in þis herberw as is now
                                
                                  ffayn wold I don ȝou merthe wist I how
                                
                                  And of a merþe I am right now biþought
                                
                                  To don you eese and it schal coste nought
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                                  ye gon to Caunturbury god yow speede
                                
                                  The blisful martir quyte ȝou ȝour meede
                                
                                  And wel I woot as ȝe gon by þe weye
                                
                                  ye schapen ȝou to talen and to pleye
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                                  ffor trewely confort ne merþe is non
                                
                                  To riden by þe wey domb as a ston
                                
                                  And þer for wol I make you disport
                                
                                  As I seide erst and do you som confort
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                                  And if ȝou likeþ all by on assent
                                
                                  ffor to stonden at my Iuggement
                                
                                  And for to werken as I schal ȝou seie
                                
                                  To morwe whan ȝe riden by þe weie /
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                                  Now by my fader soule þat is deed

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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 22
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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