The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  ffor I wol telle / a legend / or a lyf
                                
                                  Bothe of a Carpenter / and of his wyf
                                
                                  How þat a Clerk / hath set the wryghtes cap
                                
                                  ¶ . The Reve answered / and seide stynt thy clap [folio 39b] 
                                
                                  late be thyn lewed / dronken Harlotrie
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                                  It is a synne / and eke a gret folie
                                
                                  To a-peyren any man / of his defame
                                
                                  And eke to brynge wyues / in swich name
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                                  Thow maist I-now / of othere thynges seyn
                                
                                  ¶ . This dronken Millere / spak ful sone a-geyn
                                
                                  And seide / leue brother Oswold
                                
                                  Who hath no wyf / he is no Cokewold
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                                  But I seye nat þerfore / that þou art on
                                
                                  There ben ful goode wyues / many on
                                
                                   . . . . . [[not in Eg. 2726]] 
                                
                                  . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] 
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                                  Why art þou angry / with my tale now
                                
                                  I haue a wyf parde / as wel as thow
                                
                                  Ȝet nolde I / for the Oxen in my plough
                                
                                  Taken vp-on me / more than I-nough
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                                  As demen on my self / þat I were one
                                
                                  I wol byleue wel / þat I am none
                                
                                  An husbonde / shal nat ben inquesitif [¶ Nota bene] 
                                
                                  Of goddes preuyte / ne of his wyf
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                                  So he may fynden / goddes foyson there
                                
                                  Of the remenaunt / nedeth nat enquere
                                
                                  ¶ . What shulde I more seyn / but þis Millere
                                
                                  he nolde hise wordes / for no man for-bere
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                                  But told his Cherles tale / in his manere
                                
                                  Me a-thynketh / þat I shal / reherce it here
                                
                                  And therfore / euery gentil wyght I pray
                                
                                  Demeth nat / for goddes loue / that I say
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                                  Of euele entent / but for I mot reherce
                                
                                  here tales alle / al be they bet / or werce
                                
                                  Or elles falsen / som of my matere
                                
                                  And þerfore / wo-so list it nat / to here

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 90
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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