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

                                
                                     [6-text p 565] 
                                  
                                  This prest at þis cursed chanōns byddyng
                                
                                  Vpon þe fire anon sette þis þing
                                  Line 1145 
                                
                                  And blew þe fyr and busyed him ful faste
                                
                                  And þis chanon in to þis Crosselet caste
                                
                                  A poudre not I wher-of þat it was
                                
                                  I-maad oþer of chalk oþer of glas
                                  Line 1149 
                                
                                  Or som what elles was not worþ a flye
                                
                                  To blynde wiþ þis prest and bad him hye
                                
                                  þise coles for to couchen al aboue
                                
                                  þe cresselet for in tokne þat I þe loue
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                                  Quoþ þis Chanon þine hondes tuo
                                
                                  Schulle worche alle þing which as schal be do
                                
                                  Graunt mercy quod þe prest and was ful glad
                                
                                  And couchede coles as þe Chanon bad
                                  Line 1157 
                                
                                  And whils he besy was þis feendly wrecche
                                
                                  þis false Chanon þe foule feend him fecche
                                
                                  Out of his bosom took a bechene cole /
                                
                                  In which ful sotilly was maad an hole
                                  Line 1161 
                                
                                  And þer Inne put was of siluer lymaille
                                
                                  An vnce and stopped was wiþoute faille
                                
                                  This hole wiþ wex to kepe þe lymaille In
                                
                                  And vnderstondeþ þat þis false gyn
                                  Line 1165 
                                
                                  Was not made þere but it was maad bifore
                                
                                  And oþere þinges I schal telle more /
                                
                                  here aftirward which þat he wiþ him broughte
                                
                                  Er he cam þer to begyle him he þoughte
                                  Line 1169 
                                
                                  And so he dide er þey wente a twynne /
                                
                                  Til he hadde torned him couþe he not blynne [folio 186b] 
                                
                                  It dulleþ me whan þat I of him speke
                                
                                  On his falshede fayn wolde I me wreke /
                                  Line 1173 
                                
                                  If I wiste how . but he is heer and þere /
                                
                                  he is so variaunt þat he abyt no where /
                                
                                  But takeþ heed now sires for goddes loue
                                
                                  He took his cole of which I spak aboue
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                                  And in his hond he bar it priuely
                                
                                  And whiles þe prest couchide busily

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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 415
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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