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

and bigynneth his tale

                                    WHilom / ther was dwellynge in my contree
                                  
                                    An Erchedekne / a man of hy degree
                                  
                                    That boldely / dide execucion
                                  
                                    In punysshynge of ffornicacion
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                                    Of wicchecraft and eek of Bawderye
                                  
                                    Of diffamacion / and auoutrye
                                  
                                    Of chirche Reues / and of testamentz
                                  
                                    Of contractes / and eek of lakke of sacramentz
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                                    Of vsure / and of Symonye also
                                  
                                    But certes / lecchours / dide he grettest wo
                                  
                                    They sholde synge [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  n if that they were hent
                                  
                                    And smale tyth [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  eres were foule yschent
                                  
                                    If any person / [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  wold vp-on hem pleyne
                                  
                                    Ther myghte [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  asterte hym no pecunial peyne
                                  
                                    ffor smale [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  tithes & for smal offryng
                                  
                                    He made the [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  peple ful pitusly to syng
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                                    ffor er the [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  bysschop caght hem with hys hooc
                                  
                                    They were [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  in the erchdeknys book/
                                  
                                    And thanne [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  had he thurgh hys Iurisdiccion
                                  
                                    Power / to [[From here to the end of this line is in a later 15th-century hand in the MS.]]  do on hem correccion
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                                    He hadde a Somnour / redy to his hond [folio 74b] 
                                  
                                    A slyer boy / nas noon in Engelond
                                  
                                    ffor subtilly / he hadde his espiaille
                                  
                                    That taughte hym / wher hym myghte auaille
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                                    He koude spare / of lecchours / oon or two
                                  
                                    To techen hym / to foure and twenty mo
                                  
                                    ffor theigh this Somnour / wood were as an hare
                                  
                                    To telle his harlotrye / I wol nat spare

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Title: The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 167
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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