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

                                
                                  But ȝe be merye I wil ȝeue ȝow myn heed
                                
                                  Hold vp ȝour hond wiþoute more speche /
                                
                                  Our counseil was not longe for to seche /
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                                  vs þought it was not worþ to make it wys
                                
                                  And graunted him wiþoute more avys
                                
                                  And bad him seye his verdit as him leste
                                
                                  Lordynges quod he / now herkneþ for þe beste
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                                  But take it nought I prey ȝow in disdeigne
                                
                                  This is þe poynt to speke schort and pleigne
                                
                                  That ech of ȝou to schorte with ȝour weye
                                
                                  In þis viage schal telle tales tweie
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                                  To Caunturbury-ward I mene it so [folio 12a] 
                                
                                  And homward he schal tellen oþer tuo
                                
                                  Of auentures þat whilom haue bifall
                                
                                  And which of yow þat beriþ him best of all
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                                  That is to sein that telleþ in þis cas
                                
                                  Tales of best sentence and most solas ./
                                
                                  Schal haue a souper at our alþer cost
                                
                                  Her in þis place sittynge by þis post
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                                  Whan þat we comen aȝein fro Canturbury
                                
                                  And for to make ȝou þe more mury
                                
                                  I wil my seluen goodly with ȝou ryde
                                
                                  Right at myn owne cost and be ȝour gyde
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                                  And who so wol my Iuggement wiþ seye
                                
                                  Schal paye al þat we spende by þe weye
                                
                                  And if ȝe vouche saf þat it be so
                                
                                  Tel me anon wiþouten wordes moo
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                                  And I wol erly schape me þer fore
                                
                                  This þing was graunted and our oþes swore
                                
                                  With ful glad herte and preyȝen him also
                                
                                  That he wolde vouche saf for to do so
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                                  And þat he wolde ben our gouernour
                                
                                  And of oure tales Iugge and reportour
                                
                                  And sette a souper at a certein pris
                                
                                  And we wiln rewled ben at his deuys /
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                                  In heighe and lowe and þus by oon assent

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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 23
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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