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

                                
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                                  This Somnour / clappeth at the wydwes gate
                                
                                  Com out quod he / thow olde viritrate
                                
                                  I trowe thow hast som frere / or preest with theė
                                
                                  ¶ Who clappeth seyde this wyf / benedicitee
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                                  God saue yow sire / what is youre swete wille
                                
                                  ¶ I haue quod he / of somonce a bille
                                
                                  Vp peyne of cursyng looke that thow be
                                
                                  To morn / bifore the Erchedeknes knee
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                                  Tanswere to the court of certeyn thynges
                                
                                  ¶ Now lord quod she / crist Ihesu kyng of kynges
                                
                                  So wisly helpe me / as I ne may
                                
                                  I haue been syk and that ful many a day
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                                  I may nat go so fer quod she / ne ryde
                                
                                  But I be deed / so priketh it in my syde
                                
                                  May I nat axe a libel / sire Somnour
                                
                                  And answere there / by my procutour
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                                  To swiche thyng as men wole opposen me
                                
                                  ¶ Yis quod this Somnour / pay anon lat see
                                
                                  Twelf pens to me / and I wol thee acquyte
                                
                                  I shal no profyt han ther by / but lyte
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                                  My Maister hath the profit / and nat I [folio 78a] 
                                
                                  Com of / and lat me ryden hastily
                                
                                  Yif me .xij. pens / I may no lenger tarye
                                
                                  ¶ Twelf pens quod she / now lady Seinte Marie
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                                  So wisly help me god / out of care and synne
                                
                                  This wyde world / thogh that I sholde wynne
                                
                                  Ne haue I nat .xij. pens / with-Inne myn hoold
                                
                                  Ye knowen wel / that I am poure and oold
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                                  Kythe youre almesse / on me poure wrecche
                                
                                  ¶ Nay thanne quod he / the foule feend me fecche
                                
                                  If I thexcuse / theigh thow shul be spilt
                                
                                  ¶ Allas quod she / god woot I haue no gilt
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                                  ¶ Pay me quod he / or by the swete Seinte Anne
                                
                                  As I wol bere awey / thy newe panne
                                
                                  ffor dette / which thow owest me of oold
                                
                                  Whan þat thow madest / thyn housbonde cokewold

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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 175
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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