diff --git a/hexlib/text.py b/hexlib/text.py
index 01e3f6e..97847aa 100644
--- a/hexlib/text.py
+++ b/hexlib/text.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def clean(text, lowercase=False, clean_html=False, strip=False, remove_punctuati
 
     if clean_html:
         try:
-            root = etree.fromstring(text)
+            root = etree.fromstring(text.replace("&", ""))
             text = "".join(get_text(root))
         except:
             pass
diff --git a/test/test_text.py b/test/test_text.py
index f3555e9..ed9c9a6 100644
--- a/test/test_text.py
+++ b/test/test_text.py
@@ -146,3 +146,20 @@ class TestText(TestCase):
         expected = "hello world it's it's"
 
         self.assertEqual(cleaned, expected)
+
+    def test_html_11(self):
+        text = "<div>\n Hello, \t\n<strong>world! it's it`s u & | </strong>\n\t</div>"
+        cleaned = clean(
+            text,
+            clean_html=True,
+            lowercase=True,
+            remove_punctuation=True,
+            strip=True,
+            lemmatize=True,
+            fix_single_quotes=True,
+            remove_stopwords_en=True,
+            remove_urls=True
+        )
+        expected = "hello world"
+
+        self.assertEqual(cleaned, expected)