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

                                
                                  We ben accorded to þe Iuggement
                                
                                  And þer vpon þe wyn was fet anon
                                
                                  We dronken and to reste went echon
                                  Line 820 
                                
                                  Wiþouten eny lenger taryyng
                                
                                  A morwe whan þe day bigan to spryng
                                
                                  vp ros oure oost and was our alþer cok
                                
                                  And gadered vs to gider all in a flok
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                                  And forþ we riden a litel more þan paas
                                
                                  vnto þe wateryng of seint Thomas
                                
                                  And þer our oost gan his hors areste
                                
                                  And seide lordes herkneþ if you leste /
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                                  Ȝe wot ȝour forward and I it ȝou recorde [folio 12b] 
                                
                                  If euynsong and morwesong acorde
                                
                                  lat see now who schal telle þe firste tale
                                
                                  As euer mote I drynke wyn of ale
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                                  Who so be rebel to my Iuggement /
                                
                                  Schal paie for all that by þe weie is spent
                                
                                  Now draweþ Cut or þat we ferþer twynne
                                
                                  he which þat haþ þe schortest schal bigynne
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                                  ¶ Sir knight quod he my maister and my lord
                                
                                  Now draweþ Cut for þat is myn acord
                                
                                  Comeþ nerre quod he my lady prioresse
                                
                                  And ȝe sir clerk let be ȝour schamfastnesse
                                  Line 840 
                                
                                  Ne studieþ nought lay hond to euery man
                                
                                  Anon to drawe euery wight bygan
                                
                                  And schortly for to tellen as it was /
                                
                                  Were it by auenture or sort or cas
                                  Line 844 
                                
                                  The soþ is þis the Cut fel to þe knight
                                
                                  Of which ful bliþe and glad was euery wight
                                
                                  And telle he moste his tale as it was resoun
                                
                                  By forward and by composicioun
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                                  As ȝe han herd what nedeþ wordes mo
                                
                                  And whan þis good man saugh þat it was so
                                
                                  As he þat wys was and obedient
                                
                                  To keepe his forward by his free assent
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                                  He seide siþþe I schal begynne þe game

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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 24
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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