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

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                                    IN fflaundres whilom was a companye /
                                  
                                    Of ȝong folk þat haunteden folye
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                                    As Ryot hasard stewes and tauernes
                                  
                                    1Where as whyþ harpes lutes and gyternes1 [[1_1 In a different hand.]] 
                                  
                                    They daunce and pleye at dyse boþe day and night
                                  
                                    And eeten also and drunken ouer al here might
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                                    þorugh which þey doon þe deueles sacrifise
                                  
                                    Wiþinne þe deueles temple in cursed wyse
                                  
                                    þe Superflues abhominable
                                  
                                    here oþes ben so grete and dampna[b]le /
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                                    þat it is grisly for to here hem swere
                                  
                                    Oure blessed lordes body they to-tere
                                  
                                    hem þoughte Iewes rent/ him nought ynough
                                  
                                    And ilke of hem at oþer synnes lowh
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                                    And right anon þenne come tomblisteres
                                  
                                    ffetys and smal ȝong fruytesteres /
                                  
                                    Syngers with harpes bawdes wafereres
                                  
                                    Suche ben verray þe deueles officers [folio 197b] 
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                                    To kyndle and blowe þe fyr of leccherie /
                                  
                                    That is annexed to glotonye /
                                  
                                    The holy writ take I to witnesse / [¶ Nolite inebriari vino in] 
                                  
                                    That leccherie is in wyn and drunkenesse [¶ quo est luxuria] 
                                  
                                    Lo how þat drunken loth vnkyndely
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                                    lay by his doughtres tuo vnwetyngly
                                  
                                    So drunke he was he nyste what he wrought
                                  
                                    And þerfore sore repente him oughte [[spurious]] 
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                                    heroudes who so wole þe stories seche
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                                    þer may ȝe lerne and by ensample teche [[spurious]] 
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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 440
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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