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

[6-text p 399] how þat me þenkeþ quod sche so god me spede I say a cherl haþ don a cherles deede what schulde I say god let him neuer þe his seeke heed is ful of vanite 2208 I holde him in a maner frenesye Madame quod he by god I schal not lye but I on oþer wise may ben awreke I schal sclaundre him oueral wher I speke 2212 The false blasphemour þat charged me To parte þat might nouȝt departed be To euery man y-liche wiþ meschaunce þe lord sat stille as he lay in a traunse 2216 And in his herte he rolled vp and doun how hadde þis cherl ymaginacioun To schewe such a probleme to þe frere Neuer erst er now herde I of such matere 2220 I trowe þe deuyl putte it in his mynde [folio 128b] In ars metrik schal þer no man fynde Biforn þis day of such a question Who schulde make a demonstracion 2224 þat euery man schulde haue y-lik his part Of a soun or of a sauour of a fart O nyce proude cherle I schrewe his face lo sires quod þe lord wiþ harde grace 2228 Who herde euer of such a þing er now / To euery man ylike telle me how It is a impossible it may not be O nyce cherle god let him neuer þe 2232 þe rublyng of a fart and euery soun Nys but of eyre reuellacioun And þer-wiþ wasteþ litel and litel away þer is no man can deme by my fay 2236 If þat it/ were departed equaly What lo my cherle lo ȝit how schrewedely vnto my confessour to day he spak I holde him certein a demoniak 2240
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The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,
1868-[1869]

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