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

                                
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                                  ffor this was outrely / his ful entente
                                
                                  To sleen hem bothe / and neuere to repente
                                
                                  ¶ And forth he goth / no lenger wolde he tarye
                                
                                  In to the toun / vn-to Apothecarye
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                                  And preyed hym / þat he hym wolde selle
                                
                                  Som poyson / that he myghte his rattes quelle
                                
                                  And eek ther was / a polcat in his hawe
                                
                                  That as he seyde / his capons hadde yslawe
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                                  And fayn he wolde / wreke hym if he myghte
                                
                                  On vermyn / that destroyed hym by nyghte
                                
                                  ¶ The Pothecarie answerde / and thow shalt haue
                                
                                  A thyng that also god / my soule saue
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                                  In al this world / ther is no creature
                                
                                  That ete / or dronke / hath of this confiture
                                
                                  Nat but the montance / of a corn of whete [folio 202b] 
                                
                                  That he ne shal his lyf / anoon for-lete
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                                  Ye sterue he shal / and that in lasse while
                                
                                  Than thow wolt goon a pass / nat but a myle
                                
                                  The poyson / is so strong/ and violent
                                
                                  This cursed man / hath in his hand yhent
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                                  This poyson in a box / and sith he ran
                                
                                  In-to the nexte Strete / vn-to a man
                                
                                  And borwed hym / large Botels thre
                                
                                  And in the two / his poison poured he
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                                  The thridde / he kepte clene for his drynke
                                
                                  ffor al the nyght he shoope hym for to swynke
                                
                                  In cariyng of the gold / out of that place
                                
                                  And whan this Riotour / with sory grace
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                                  Hadde filled with wyn / hise grete Botels thre
                                
                                  To hise felawes / agayn repaireth he
                                
                                  ¶ What nedeth it to sarmone of it moore
                                
                                  ffor right as they / hadde cast his deeth bifore
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                                  Right so / they han hym slayn / and that anon
                                
                                  And whan this was doon / thus spak that oon
                                
                                  Now lat vs sitte and drynke / and make vs merye
                                
                                  And afterward / we wol his body berye

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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 466
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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