[6-text p 561]
This tale nas nat oonly told for ȝou
But eek for oþer mo ȝe wot wel how
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That amonges cristes apostles twelue
Ther was no traytour but Iudas himselue
þanne why scholde þe remenant alle haue blame
That gulteles were by ȝou sey I þe same
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Sauf oonly þis if ȝe wiln herkne me
If ony Iudas in ȝoure couent be
Remeueþ him by tyme I ȝou rede
If schame or losse may causen ony drede
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And beþ no þing displesed I ȝou pray
But in þis caas herkneth what I say
IN london was a prest an annueler
That þer-Inne dwelled hadde many a ȝeer
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Which was so plesant / and so seruisable /
Vnto þe wyf wher he was at þe table
That sche wolde suffre him no þing for to pay
ffor bord nor cloþing wente he non so gay
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And spendyng siluer had he right ynough
þer-of no force I wol procede as now /
And telle forþ my tale of þe Chanon
þat brouȝte þis prest to confusion
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This false Chanon cam vpon a day
vnto þe prestes chambre þer he lay
Byseching him to lene him a certeyn
Of golde and he wold quite it him ageyn
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leneþ me a mark quod he but dayes þre
And at my day I wol it quite þe [folio 184b]
And if so be þat þou fynde me fals
Anoþer day hang me vp by þe hals
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This prest him tok a mark and þat as swiþe
And þis Chanoun him þanked often siþe
And took his leue and wente forth his wey
And atte þridde day brouȝt his money
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And to þis prest he took þis gold aȝein
Ther-of þis prest was glad and fayn
