• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

stounde To go to Mille , and seen hir corn ygrounde And hardily , they dorste leye hir nekke The Millere , sholde noght stelen hem half a pekke Of corn by sleighte , ne by force hem reue And

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

leue but a litel stounde To go to mille and seen hir corn y grounde And hardily thei durst ley hir nekke The Miller shold not stele hem halfe a pekke Of corn bi sleight ne bi force hem reue

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

þe clerkes weren aferd And bad his wijf go knede it in a cake He half a buisschel of here corn haþ take And whan þe Meller seigh þat þei were gon Toward þe fen boþe alayn and eek Iohn

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

a lite stoūde To gon to melle to sen here corn I groūde And hardely þey durste leyn here nekke The mellere schulde not stele hē half a pekke Of corn be sleyghte ne be forse hē reue And at

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

stounde , To go to melle and see here corn I grounde And hardily þey dursten ley here nekke , The meller schuld nat stel hem half a pekke Of corn by sleighte ne by force hem reue And atte

• Historiated initial 'C'(onfortatus) with a priest scourging king David at the beginning of II Chronicles (index II Paralipomenon)., Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect

Joshua (f. 106); ?Judah wrestling a lion, for Judges (f. 117v), Boaz addressing Ruth and a boy holding ears of corn or barley?, for Ruth (f. 130); Elkanah and Hannah praying at an altar, at I Samuel (f. 132v); David