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

                                
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                                  And for despit he drank ful muchel moore
                                
                                  An hundred part than he hadde doon bifore
                                
                                  And right anon / this Irous cursed wrecche
                                
                                  bifore hym Leet this knyghtes sone / fecche
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                                  Comandynge hym / he sholde bifore hym stonde [folio 84a] 
                                
                                  And sodeynly / he took his bowe in honde
                                
                                  And vp the streng he pulled to his ere
                                
                                  And with an arwe / he slow the child right there
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                                  Now / wheither haue I / a siker hand or noon
                                
                                  Quod he / is al my myght and mynde agoon
                                
                                  Hath wyn byreued me / myn eye sight
                                
                                  ¶ What sholde I telle / thanswere of the knyght
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                                  His sone was slayn / ther is namoore to seye
                                
                                  Beth war ther fore / with lordes how ye pleye
                                
                                  Syngeth Placebo / and I shal if I kan
                                
                                  But if it be / vn-to a poure man
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                                  To a poure man / men sholde his vices telle
                                
                                  But nat to a lord / thogh he sholde go to helle
                                
                                  ¶ Lo Irous Syrus / thilke Percien
                                
                                  How he destroyed / the ryuer of Gysen
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                                  ffor that an hors of his / was dreynt ther-Inne
                                
                                  Whan that he wente / Babiloyne to wynne
                                
                                  He made / that the Ryuer was so smal
                                
                                  That wommen / myghte wade it ouer al
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                                  Lo what seyde he / that so wel teche kan
                                
                                  Ne be no felawe / to an Irous man
                                
                                  Ne with no wood man / walke by the weye
                                
                                  Lest thee repente / I wol no ferther seye
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                                  ¶ Now Thomas leeue brother / lef thyn Ire
                                
                                  Thow shalt me fynde / as Iust as is a Squyre
                                
                                  Hoold nat the deueles knyf / ay at thyn herte
                                
                                  Thyn angre dooth thee / al to soore smerte
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                                  But shewe to me / al thy confession
                                
                                  ¶ Nay quod the sike man / by Seint Symon
                                
                                  I haue be shryuen this day / at my Curat
                                
                                  I haue hym toold / hoolly al myn estat

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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 190
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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