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

                                
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                                  þe hihe god forbad sweryng at al
                                
                                  Witnesse at Matthew but in special
                                
                                  Of sweryng saiþ þe holy Ieromie
                                
                                  þou schalt swere soþ þin oþes and nought lye /
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                                  And swere in doome and eek in rightwisnesse
                                
                                  But ydel sweryng is a cursednesse
                                
                                  Bihold and see þat in þe ferste table /
                                
                                  Of heyhe goddes hestes honurable /
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                                  how þat þe secounde heste of him is þis /
                                
                                  Take nought my name in ydelnesse amys /
                                
                                  lo raþer he forbedeþ such sweryng
                                
                                  Or Omycyde or eny oþer cursed þing
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                                  I say as by ordre þus it standeþ
                                
                                  This knoweþ þat his hestes vnderstandeþ
                                
                                  how þat þe secounde heste of god is þat
                                
                                  And forþermore I wol þe telle al plat
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                                  þat vengeaunte schal nouȝt parte fro his hous
                                
                                  þat of his othis is so outrageous
                                
                                  By goddes precious herte and his nayles
                                
                                  And by his blood þat is in hayles
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                                  Seuen is my chaunce and þin is fyue and þre /
                                
                                  By goddes armes if þou falsly pleye me
                                
                                  þis dagger schal þurgh þin herte go
                                
                                  þis fruyt comeþ of þe bicched bones tuo
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                                  fforsweryng Ire falsnes homicyde
                                
                                  Now for þe loue of crist þat for vs dyde
                                
                                  leueþ ȝoure oþes boþe grete and smale
                                
                                  ffor cristes sake and herkne to my tale [folio 200a] 
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                                  þise ryetoures þre of which I telle
                                
                                  longe er pryme ronge eny belle
                                
                                  Were sette hem in a tauerne for to drynke /
                                
                                  And as þey sate þey herde a belle clynke /
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                                  Byforn a corps was caryed to his graue
                                
                                  þat oon of hem gan calle to his knaue /
                                
                                  Go bet quoþ he and axe redyly
                                
                                  What corps is þis þat passeþ faste by /

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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 445
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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