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

                                
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                                  As soone as day / he wente out of the town
                                
                                  ¶ This man / gan fallen in suspecioun
                                
                                  Remembrynge / on hise dremes þat he mette
                                
                                  And forth he goth / no lenger wolde he lette
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                                  Vn-to the westgate of the town / and fond
                                
                                  A dong Carte / went as it were to donge lond
                                
                                  That was arrayed / in that same wise
                                
                                  As ye han herd / the dede man deuyse
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                                  And with an hardy herte / he gan to crye
                                
                                  Vengeaunce / and Iustice / of this felonye
                                
                                  My felawe / mordred is / this same nyght
                                
                                  And in this Cart heere / he lyth gapyng vp-right
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                                  I crye / on the Mynystres / quod he
                                
                                  That sholde kepe / and rulen this Citee
                                
                                  Harrow / allas / heere lyth my felawe slayn
                                
                                  What sholde I moore / vn-to this tale sayn
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                                  The peple vp sterte / and caste the Cart to grounde
                                
                                  And in the myddel of the dong they founde
                                
                                  The dede man / þat mordred was al newe
                                
                                  ¶ O blisful god / þat art so Iust and trewe
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                                  Lo / how þat thow biwreyest mordre alway
                                
                                  Mordre wol out that se we day by day
                                
                                  Mordre / is so wlatsom / and abhomynable
                                
                                  To god / that is so Iust and resonable
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                                  That he ne wod nat suffre it helyd be
                                
                                  Though it abyde / a yeer / or two / or thre
                                
                                   [Rats.]  [folio 102b] [M]ordre wol out this my conclusioun
                                
                                  And right anon / Ministres of that town
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                                  Han hent the Cartere / and so soore hym pyned
                                
                                  And eek the hostiler / so sore engyned
                                
                                  That they biknewe / hire wikkednesse anon
                                
                                  And were anhanged / by the nekke bon
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                                  Heere may men sen / þat dremes ben to drede
                                
                                  ¶ And certes / in the same book I rede
                                
                                  Right in the nexte Chapitre / after this
                                
                                  I gabbe nat so haue I ioye or blys

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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 233
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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