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

                                
                                  Was neuere trompe / of half so greet a soun
                                
                                  ¶ This Pardoner / hadde heer / as yelow as wex
                                
                                  But smothe it heeng as dooth a stryke of flex
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                                  By ounces / henge his lokkes þat he hadde
                                
                                  And ther with / he his shuldres ouerspradde
                                
                                  But thynne it lay / by colpons oon and oon
                                
                                  But hood for Iolitee / wered he noon
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                                  ffor it was trussed vp / in his walet
                                
                                  Hym thoughte / he rood al of the newe Iet
                                
                                  Discheuele saue his cappe / he rood al bare
                                
                                  Swiche glarynge eyen / hadde he as an hare
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                                  A vernycle / hadde he sowed / vp on his cappe
                                
                                  His walet [lay] biforn hym / in his lappe
                                
                                  Bretful of pardon / comen from Rome al hoot
                                
                                  A voys he hadde / as smal / as hath a Goot
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                                  No berd hadde he / ne neuere sholde haue
                                
                                  As smothe it was / as it were late yshaue
                                
                                  I trowe he were a geldyng or a Mare
                                
                                  But of his craft. fro Berwyk in to Ware
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                                  Ne was ther / swich another Pardoner
                                
                                  ffor in his Male / he hadde a pilwe beer
                                
                                  Which þat he seyde / was oure lady veyl
                                
                                  He seyde he hadde / a gobet of the seyl
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                                  That seint Peter hadde / whan þat he wente
                                
                                  Vp on the see / til Ihesu Crist hym hente
                                
                                  He hadde a cros of laton / ful of stones
                                
                                  And in a glas / he hadde pigges bones
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                                  But with thise relykes / whan þat he foond
                                
                                  A poure parson / dwellyng vp on lond
                                
                                  Vp on a day / he gat hym moore moneye
                                
                                  Than þat the parson gat / in Monthes tweye
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                                  And thus / with feyned flaterye and Iapes
                                
                                  He made the parson / and the peple his apes
                                
                                  But trewely / to tellen at the laste
                                
                                  He was in chirche / a noble Ecclesiaste
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                                  Wel koude he / rede a lesson / and a Storie

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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 20
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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