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

                                
                                     [6-text p 330] 
                                  
                                  And aftirward it happed hem per cas
                                
                                  To take þe botel þer-in þe poyson was
                                
                                  And drank and ȝaf his felawe drynke also
                                
                                  ffor which anon þey storuen boþe tuo
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                                  But certes I suppose þat Auycenne
                                
                                  Wrot neuer in no Canoun ne in no fenne
                                
                                  Mo wonder sorwes of enpoysonyng
                                
                                  Thus hadde þise wrecches tuo here endynge
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                                  Thus ended ben þis Omycides tuo
                                
                                  And eek þe false enpoysonere also
                                
                                  O cursed synne ful of cursednes
                                
                                  O traytours Omycyderes o wikkednes
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                                  O glotenye o luxurie O hasardye
                                
                                  þou blasphemer of crist wiþ vilenye
                                
                                  And oþes grete of vsage and of pryde
                                
                                  Allas mankynde how may it betyde
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                                  þerto þin creatour / which þat þe wrought
                                
                                  And wiþ his precious blood þe bought
                                
                                  þou art so fals and so vnkynde allas
                                
                                  Now goode men god forȝiue ȝoure trespas
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                                  And ware ȝou fro þe synne of auarice /
                                
                                  Myn holy pardoun may ȝou alle warische
                                
                                  So þat ȝe offre nobles or sterlinges
                                
                                  Oþer elles seluer spones broches and rynges /
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                                  Boweþ ȝoure hed vnder þis holy bulles
                                
                                  Comeþ vp ȝe wyues offreþ ȝoure wulles
                                
                                  Ȝoure name I entre here in my rolle anon
                                
                                  In-to þe blisse of heuen schul ȝe gon [folio 203b] 
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                                  I ȝou assoille by myn heih powere
                                
                                  ȝe þat woln offre as clene and eek as cleere
                                
                                  As ȝe were born and sires lo þus I preche
                                
                                  And Ihesu crist þat is oure soules leche
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                                  So graunte ȝou his pardoun to resceyue
                                
                                  ffor þat is best I wol ȝou nouȝt disceyue
                                
                                  But sires o word forgat I in my tale
                                
                                  I haue reliqes and pardon in my male

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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 452
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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