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

                                
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                                  I payde at hom / for thy correccion
                                
                                  ¶ Thow lyxt quod she / by my sauacion
                                
                                  Ne was I · neuere er now / wydwe ne wyf
                                
                                  Somoned vn-to youre court in al my lyf /
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                                  Ne neuere I nas / but of my body trewe
                                
                                  Vn-to the deuel / blak and row of hewe
                                
                                  Yeue I thy body / and my panne also
                                
                                  ¶ And whan the deuel / herde hire cursen so
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                                  Vp-on hir knees / he seyde in this manere
                                
                                  Now Mabely / myn owene moder deere
                                
                                  Is this youre wyl in ernest / þat ye seye
                                
                                  ¶ The deuel quod she / so fecche hym er he deye
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                                  And panne and al / but he wol hym repente
                                
                                  ¶ Nay olde stot that is nat myn entente
                                
                                  Quod this Somnour / for to repente me
                                
                                  ffor any thyng that I haue had of thee
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                                  I wolde I hadde thy smok / and euery clooth
                                
                                  ¶ Now brother quod the deuel / be noght wrooth
                                
                                  Thy body and this panne / been myne by right
                                
                                  Thow shalt with me to helle / yet to nyght
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                                  Wher thow shalt knowen / of oure pryuetee
                                
                                  Moore / than a maister of dyuynytee
                                
                                  And with that word / this foule feend hym hente
                                
                                  Body and soule / he with the deuel wente
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                                  Wher as that Somnours / han hir heritage [folio 78b] 
                                
                                  And god / that made after his ymage
                                
                                  Mankynde / saue / and gyde vs alle and some
                                
                                  And leue thise Somnours / goode men to bicome
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                                  ¶ Lordynges I koude han told yow / quod the frere
                                
                                  Hadde I had leyser / for this Somnour heere
                                
                                  After the text / of crist Poul and Iohn
                                
                                  And of oure othere doctours / many oon
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                                  Swich peynes / that youre hertes myghte agryse
                                
                                  Al be it so / no tonge may it deuyse
                                
                                  Thogh that I myghte / a thousand wynter telle
                                
                                  The peynes / of thilke cursed hous of helle

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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 176
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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