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

[6-text p 322] And euere the hyer / he is of estaat The moore is he holden desolat If þat a Prynce / vseth hasardrye In alle gouernance / and policye 600 He is / as by commune opynyon Yholde / the lasse in reputacion ¶ Stilbon / that was a wys Embassadour Was sent to Corynthe / in ful gret honour 604 ffro lacedomye / to make hire alliaunce And whan he cam / hym happed par chaunce That alle the gretteste / þat were of that lond Pleiynge at the hasard / he hem fond 608 ffor which as soone / as it myghte be He stal hym hom agayn / to his contree And seyde / ther wol I nat lese my name Ny wol nat take on me / so greet defame 612 Yow for to allie / vn-to none hasardours Sendeth / othere wise Embassadours ffor by my trouthe / me were leuere dye Than I yow sholde / to hasardours allye 616 ffor ye that been / so glorious in honours Shal nat allye yow / with hasardours As by my wyl / ne as by my tretee This wise Philosophre / thus seyde he 620 ¶ Looke eek / that to the kyng Demetrius The kyng of Parthes / as the book seith vs Sente hym a paire of dees / of gold in scorn [folio 199b] ffor he hadde vsed / hasard ther biforn 624 ffor which / he heeld his glorie / or his renoun At no value / or reputacioun Lordes may fynden / oother manere pley Honeste ynow / to dryue the day awey 628 ¶ Now wol I speke / of oothes false and grete A word or two / as olde bokes trete ¶ Greet sweryng is a thyng abhomynable And fals sweryng is yet moore repreuable 632
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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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