The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  And Iohn also howe nowe what do ȝe here
                                
                                  Be god quod Iohn . Simond . nede haþe no pere
                                
                                  Him be-houeþ serue him self þat haþe no sweyne
                                
                                  Or elles he is a foole as clerkes seine
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                                  Oure Maunciple .I. hope he wil be dede
                                
                                  Swa werkes him þe wanges in his hede
                                
                                  And þere-fore es .I. come and alswa Aleine
                                
                                  To grinde oure corne and carie it ham aȝeine
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                                  .I. prei ȝowe spede vs heþen þat ȝe maye
                                
                                  It schal be done quod Simkin be my faye
                                
                                  ¶ What will ȝe done while þat it is in hande
                                
                                  Bed god . riht be þe hoper will .I. stande
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                                  Quod Iohn and see howe þe corne goþe Inne
                                
                                  Ȝit sawe .I. neuer be my fader kinne
                                
                                  Howe þat þe hoper wagges till and fra
                                
                                  Aleyne Ansewerd Iohn wil-tow swa
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                                  Than wil .I. be by-neþe be my croune
                                
                                  And see howe gates þe mele falles adowne
                                
                                  In-till þe troughe þat schall be my disporte
                                
                                  Quod Iohn in faaþe .I. es al of ȝowre sorte
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                                  .I. es as il a Melnere as es ȝe
                                
                                  This Mellere smyled of here Nicite.
                                
                                  And þouht al þis nys done bot for a wyle [folio 50a] 
                                
                                  þei weene þat no man may þem be-gile
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                                  Bot be my þreft ȝit schal .I. blere here eye
                                
                                  ffor al þe sleight in hire philosophie
                                
                                  þe moo qweinte crekes þat þei make
                                
                                  þe more wil .I. stele whan .I. take
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                                  In stede of flowre ȝit will .I. ȝeue hem branne
                                
                                  The grettest clerke ne is nouȝt þe wiseste manne
                                
                                  As whilome to þe wolfe þus spak þe mare
                                
                                  Of al hire arte counte .I. nouhte a tare
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                                  Oute att þe dore he goþe ful priuelye
                                
                                  Whan þat he sawhe his time softly
                                
                                  He lokeþe vp and doune til he haue founde
                                
                                  The clerkes hors þere as it stode bounde

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 116
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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