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

[6-text p 308] I wol it preue / and fynde good witnesse That sooth is / that my bille wol expresse ¶ This Iuge answerde / of this in his absence I may nat yeue / diffynytif sentence 172 Lat do hym calle / and I wol gladly heere [audire] Thow shalt haue al right and no wrong heere [hic] Virginius cam to wite / the Iuges wille And right anon / was rad this cursed bille 176 The sentence of it was as ye shul heere ¶ To yow my lord / sire Apius so deere Sheweth / youre poure seruant Claudius How þat a knyght called Virginius 180 Agayns the lawe / agayn al equitee Holdeth expres / agayn the wyl of me My seruant which þat is my thral by right Which fro myn hous / was stole vp-on a nyght 184 Whil that she was ful yong this wol I preue By witnesse lord / so þat it nat yow greue She nys his doghter nat what so he seye Wher to yow / my lord the Iuge I preye 188 Yeld me my thral / if þat it be youre wille Lo / this was al the sentence / of his bille ¶ Virginius / gan vp-on the cherl biholde But hastily / er he his tale tolde 192 And wolde haue proued it as sholde a knyght And eek by witnessynge / of many a wight That it was fals / that seyde his Aduersarie This cursed Iuge / wolde no thyng tarie 196 Ne here a word / moore of Virginius [folio 194a] But yaf his Iuggement and seyde thus / ¶ I deme anon / this cherl / his seruant haue Thou shalt no lenger / in thyn hous hir saue 200 Go bryng hir forth / and put hire in oure warde The cherl shal han his thral / this I awarde ¶ And whan / this worthy knyght Virginius Thurgh sentence / of this Iustice Apius 204
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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