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

                                
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                                  ffor we been / out of his correccion
                                
                                  They han of vs / no Iurisdiccion
                                
                                  Ne neuere shullen / terme of hir lyues
                                
                                  ¶ Peter / so been the wommen of the styves
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                                  Quod this Somnour / yput out of my cure
                                
                                  ¶ Pees with myschaunce / and with mysauenture
                                
                                  Thus seyde oure hoost / and lat hym telle his tale
                                
                                  Now telleth forth / thogh þat the Somnour gale
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                                  Ne spareth nat myn owene mayster deere
                                
                                  ¶ This false theef this Somnour / quod the frere
                                
                                  Hadde alwey / baudes redy to his hond
                                
                                  As any hauk to lure in Engelond
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                                  That tolde hym / al the secree þat they knewe
                                
                                  ffor hire aqueyntance / was nat come of newe
                                
                                  They weren / hise Approwours pryuely
                                
                                  He took hym self / a greet profit ther by
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                                  His maister knew nat alwey / what he wan
                                
                                  With-outen mandement a lewed man
                                
                                  He koude somne / on peyne of cristes curs
                                
                                  And they were glade / for to fille his purs
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                                  And make hym / grete festes atte nale
                                
                                  And right as Iudas / hadde purses smale
                                
                                  And was a theef/ right swich a theef was he
                                
                                  His maister / hadde but half his duetee
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                                  He was / if I shal yeuen hym his laude
                                
                                  A theef / and eek a somnour / and a baude
                                
                                  He hadde eek wenches / at his retenue
                                
                                  That wheither þat sir Robert / or sire hewe
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                                  Or Iakke / or Rauf or who so that it were
                                
                                  That lay by hem / they tolde it in his ere
                                
                                  Thus was the wenche and he / of oon assent
                                
                                  And he wolde fecche / a feyned mandement
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                                  And somne hem to Chapitre / bothe two [folio 75a] 
                                
                                  And pile the man / and lete the wenche go
                                
                                  ¶ Thanne wolde he seye / freend I shal for thy sake
                                
                                  Do stryke hire / out of oure lettres blake

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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 168
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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