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

                                
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                                  ffor to compleyne ar he hir slough allas
                                
                                  And god it wot noþing was hire trespas
                                
                                  But þat sche ran hire fader first to see
                                
                                  To welcome him wiþ gret solempnite
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                                  And wiþ þat word sche felle on swown anon
                                
                                  And after whan hir swownyng was agon
                                
                                  Sche riseþ vp and to hire fader sayde /
                                
                                  Blessed be god þat I schal deye a mayde
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                                  ȝif me my deth er þat I haue a schame
                                
                                  Doþ wiþ ȝour child ȝour wil a goddes name
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word sche prayeþ him ful ofte
                                
                                  þat wiþ his swerd he schulde hir smyte softe
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                                  And wiþ þat word on swoune doun sche fel
                                
                                  hir fader wiþ ful sorweful herte and fel
                                
                                  hire heed of smoot and by þe top it hente
                                
                                  And to þe Iuge he ȝaf it to presente
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                                  As he sat in his doom in consistory
                                
                                  Whan þe Iuge it say as saiþ þe story
                                
                                  He bad take him and honge him also faste
                                
                                  But right anon al þe poeple in þraste
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                                  To saue þe knight for rouþe and for pite
                                
                                  ffor knowen was þe fooles Iniquite
                                
                                  The poeple anon hadde suspecte in þis þing
                                
                                  By maner of þis clerkes chalangyng
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                                  That it was by þassent of Apius [folio 194b] 
                                
                                  They wisten wel þat he was lecchorous
                                
                                  ffor which vnto þis Apius þey gon
                                
                                  And casten him in prison right anon
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                                  Wher as he slough himself and Claudius
                                
                                  þat seruant was vnto þis Apius
                                
                                  Was demed for to honge vpon a tre
                                
                                  But/ virgineus of his grete pite
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                                  Prayde for him þat he was exiled
                                
                                  And elles certes he hadde be bygyled
                                
                                  The remenant were honged more & lesse
                                
                                  þat consented were to his cursednesse

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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 432
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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