The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 378] 
                                  
                                  And speke as renabely and faire and wel
                                
                                  As to þe phitonessa dede Samuel /
                                
                                  And ȝit wol some men say it was nat he
                                
                                  I do no force of ȝoure diuinite
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                                  But o þing warne I þe I wil nat Iape
                                
                                  Thou wilt algates wite how we be schape /
                                
                                  þou schalt her aftirward my broþer deere
                                
                                  Come wher þe needeþ nat of me to leere
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                                  ffor þou schalt by þin owne experience
                                
                                  Come in-to þe chayer rede þis sentence
                                
                                  Bet þan virgile whil he was a lyue
                                
                                  Or dante also now lat vs ryde blyue
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                                  ffor I wil holde company wiþ þe
                                
                                  Til it be so þat þou forsake me
                                
                                  Nay quod þis somnour þat schal nat betyde
                                
                                  I am a ȝeman knowe is ful wyde
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                                  my trouþe wil I holde to þe as in þis cas
                                
                                  ffor þey þou were þe deuyl Sathanas
                                
                                  My trouþe wil I holde to my broþer
                                
                                  As I am sworne and eche of vs to oþer
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                                  ffor to be trewe broþer in þis cas
                                
                                  And broþer we gon to oure purchas
                                
                                  Take þou þy part what men þe wole yiue
                                
                                  And I schal myn þus may we boþe lyue
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                                  And if þat eny of vs haue more þan oþer
                                
                                  lat him be trewe and parte it wiþ his broþer
                                
                                  I graunte quod þe deuyl by my fay
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word þey ryden forþ here way
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                                  And right at þentryng of þe tounes ende [folio 119a] 
                                
                                  To which þe somnour schop him for to wende
                                
                                  They say a carte þat charged was with hey
                                
                                  Which þat a cartere drof forþ on his wey
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                                  Deep was þe wey for whiche þe carte strood
                                
                                  This cartere smot and striued as he were wood
                                
                                  hayt brok hayt scot what spare we for þe stones
                                
                                  The feend quoþ he ȝow fecche boþe body and bones /

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Title: The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 257
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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