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

                                
                                     [6-text p 566] 
                                  
                                  The coles as I tolde ȝow er þis
                                
                                  This chanoun sayde freend ȝe doon amys
                                  Line 1181 
                                
                                  This is not couched as it oughte be
                                
                                  But soone I schal amenden it quod he /
                                
                                  Now let me melle þer with but a while /
                                
                                  For of ȝow haue I pitee by seint Gile
                                  Line 1185 
                                
                                  Ȝe been right hoot / I se wel how ȝe swete
                                
                                  haue heer a cloþ and wype a-way þe wete
                                
                                  And whiles þat þis prest him wyped haas
                                
                                  This chanoun took his cole I schrewe his faas
                                  Line 1189 
                                
                                  And layd it abouen on þe mydward
                                
                                  Of þe croslet/ and blew wel afterward
                                
                                  Til þat þe coles gonne faste brenne
                                
                                  Now ȝeue vs drinke quod þe chanoun þenne /
                                  Line 1193 
                                
                                  Als swiþe al schal be wel I vndertake
                                
                                  Sitte we doun and let vs mery make /
                                
                                  And whan þe chanouns bechene cole /
                                
                                  was brent al þe lymail out of þe hole
                                  Line 1197 
                                
                                  In to þe crosselet anoon fel a doun
                                
                                  And so it moste needes by resoun
                                
                                  Sins it so euen aboue couched was
                                
                                  But þer of wist þe prest no þing allas
                                  Line 1201 
                                
                                  He demed alle þe colis I-liche goode
                                
                                  For of þe sleight he no þing vnderstood
                                
                                  And whan þis alcamister saugh his tyme
                                
                                  Rys vp sire prest quod he and stonde byme
                                  Line 1205 
                                
                                  And fo I wot wel Ingot haue ȝe noon
                                
                                  Goth walkith forth and brynge a chalkstoon
                                
                                  For I wol make it of þe same schap [folio 178a] 
                                
                                  That is an Ingold if I may haue hap /
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                                  And bringe with ȝou a bolle or a panne
                                
                                  Ful of water and ȝe schul wel se þanne /
                                
                                  how þat oure besynes schal happe and preue
                                
                                  And ȝit for ȝe schul haue no mysbileeue
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                                  Ne wrong conceyt of me in ȝoure absence
                                
                                  I ne wol nought ben out of ȝoure presence /

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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 406
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1885.

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