The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  ffor certes by no force / ne by no meede
                                
                                  Hym thoughte / he was nat able for to speede
                                
                                  ffor she was strong of freendes / and eek she
                                
                                  Confermed was / in swich souerayn bountee
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                                  That wel he wiste / he myghte hire neuere wynne
                                
                                  As for to maken hire / with hir body synne
                                
                                  ffor which / by greet deliberacioun
                                
                                  He sente after a cherl / was in the toun
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                                  Which þat he knew / for subtil and for boold
                                
                                  This Iuge / vn-to this cherl / his tale hath toold
                                
                                  In secree wise / and made hym to ensure
                                
                                  He sholde telle it to no creature
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                                  And if he dide / he sholde lese his heed
                                
                                  Whan þat assented was / this cursed reed
                                
                                  Glad was this Iuge / and maked him greet cheere
                                
                                  And yaf hym yiftes / preciouse and deere
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                                  ¶ Whan shapen was / al hire conspiracie
                                
                                  ffro point to point how þat his lecherie
                                
                                  Parfourned sholde been ful subtilly
                                
                                  As ye / shul heere it after openly
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                                  Hoom gooth the cherl / þat highte Claudius
                                
                                  This false Iuge / that highte Apius
                                
                                  So was his name / for this is no fable
                                
                                  But knowen / for historial thyng notable
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                                  The sentence of it sooth is out of doute
                                
                                  This false Iuge / gooth now faste aboute
                                
                                  To hasten his delit al that he may
                                
                                  And so bifel / soone after on a day
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                                  This false Iuge / as telleth vs the storie
                                
                                  As he was wont sat in his Consistorie
                                
                                  And yaf his doomes / vp-on sondry cas
                                
                                  This false cherl / cam forth / a ful greet pas
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                                  And seyde lord / if þat it be youre wille
                                
                                  As dooth me right/ vp-on this pitous bille
                                
                                  In which I pleyne / vp-on Virginius
                                
                                  And if þat he wol seyn / it is nat thus

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Title: The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 365
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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