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

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                                    This Somnour in his styrop heyhe stood [on leaf 120, back] 
                                  
                                    Vpon þis frere his herte was so wood
                                  
                                    That lik an aspen leef he quok for Ire
                                  
                                    lordynges quod he but o þing I desire /
                                    Line 1668 
                                  
                                    I ȝou beseche þat of ȝour curtesye
                                  
                                    Siþ ȝe han herde þis false frere lye
                                  
                                    As suffreþ me I may a tale telle
                                  
                                    This frere bosteþ þat he knoweþ helle/
                                    Line 1672 
                                  
                                    And god wot þat it is litel wonder
                                  
                                    ffreres and feendes ben but litel asonder
                                  
                                    ffor parde ȝe han. ofte tyme herd telle/
                                  
                                    how þat a frere rauyssched was in helle
                                    Line 1676 
                                  
                                    In spirit ones by avisioun
                                  
                                    And as an aungel ladde him vp and doun
                                  
                                    To schewen him þe peynes þat þer were
                                  
                                    In alle þe place saugh he nat a ffrere [folio 121a] 
                                    Line 1680 
                                  
                                    Of oþer folk he saugh ynowe in woo
                                  
                                    Vnto þis aungel spak þe frere þo
                                  
                                    Now sire quod he han freres such a grace /
                                  
                                    That non of hem schal come to þis place /
                                    Line 1684 
                                  
                                    Ȝis quod þis aungel many a milioun
                                  
                                    And vnto Sathanas he hadde him doun
                                  
                                    And now haþ Sathanas saiþ he a taile
                                  
                                    Bradder þan of þe Caryk is þe saile
                                    Line 1688 
                                  
                                    hold vp þi tayl þou Satanas quod he /
                                  
                                    Schew forþ þin ersand lat þe frere se /
                                  
                                    Wher is þe neste of ffreres in þis place
                                  
                                    And er þat half a forlong wey of space

                                    Line 1692

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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 262
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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