The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 548] 
                                  
                                  And whanne þat he was com he gan to crie
                                
                                  God saue quod he þis ioly compaignye/
                                
                                  Fast haue I priked quod he for ȝour sake /
                                
                                  By cause þat I wolde ȝou atake
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                                  To ryden in þis mery companye /
                                
                                  his ȝeman eek was ful of curtesye /
                                
                                  He seid sires now in þe morwe tyde /
                                
                                  Out of ȝour ostelry I saugh ȝou ryde /
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                                  And warned heer my lord and my souerayn
                                
                                  which þat to ryden with ȝow is ful fayn
                                
                                  For his desport/ he loueth daliaunce
                                
                                  Frend for þy warnyng god ȝeue þe good chaunce
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                                  Sayde oure host for certes it wolde seme
                                
                                  Thy lord were wys and so I may wel deme
                                
                                  he is ful iocound also dar I leye
                                
                                  Can he ought telle a mery tale or tweye
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                                  with which he glade may þis companye
                                
                                  who sire my lord / ȝe ȝe / wiþoute lye /
                                
                                  He can of merthe and eek of Iolite [folio 170a] 
                                
                                  Not but ynough also sir trusteþ me
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                                  And ȝe him knewe / as wel as do I
                                
                                  ȝe wolde wonder how wel and þriftily
                                
                                  he couþe werke and þat in sondry wise
                                
                                  he haþ take on him many sondry emprise /
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                                  which were ful hard for eny þat is heere
                                
                                  To bringe aboute but þay of him it leere /
                                
                                  As homely as he ryt amonges ȝow
                                
                                  If ȝe him knewe it wolde be ȝoure prow
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                                  Ȝe nolde nought forgon his aqueyntaunce
                                
                                  For moche good I dar lay in balaunce
                                
                                  Al þat haue in my possessioun
                                
                                  he is a man of heigh discressioun
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                                  I warne ȝow wel he is a passyng man
                                
                                  ¶ wel quod our oost/ I pray þe tel me þan
                                
                                  Is he a clerk / or noon tel what he is
                                
                                  Nay he is gretter þan a clerk I-wis;

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Title: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 388
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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