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

                                
                                  Was neuer trompe of half so gret a soun
                                
                                  This pardoner hadde her as yelow as wax
                                
                                  But smothe it heng as doth a strik of flax.
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                                  By ounces heng his lokkes þat he hadde /
                                
                                  And þer with he his schuldres ouer spradde
                                
                                  But þinne it lay by culpons on and oon
                                
                                  But hood for Iolite werede he noon
                                  Line 680 
                                
                                  ffor it was trussed vp in his walet
                                
                                  Him þoughte he rood al of the newe get
                                
                                  Discheuele saf his cappe he rood al bare
                                
                                  Swich glaryng yghen hadde he as an hare
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                                  A vernicle hadde he sewid on his cappe [folio 10b] 
                                
                                  His walet [lay] biforn him in his lappe /
                                
                                  Bret ful of pardon comen fro Rome al hoot
                                
                                  A voys he hadde as smal as a goot
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                                  No berd ne hadde he ne neuer schulde haue
                                
                                  As smothe it was as it ware late schaue
                                
                                  I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare
                                
                                  But of his craft fro Berwik in to ware
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                                  Ne was þer such anoþer pardoner
                                
                                  ffor in his male he hadde a pilewber
                                
                                  Which þat he sayde was oure lady veyle
                                
                                  He seide he hadde a gobet of þe seyle
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                                  That seint petir hadde whan þat he wente
                                
                                  Vpon the see til ihesu crist him hente
                                
                                  He hadde a Croys of laton ful of stones
                                
                                  And in a glas he hadde pigges boones
                                  Line 700 
                                
                                  But with þese reliqes whan þat he fonde
                                
                                  A poure person dwellyng vpon londe /
                                
                                  Vpon a day he gat him more moneye
                                
                                  Than þat þe person gat in monþes tweye
                                  Line 704 
                                
                                  And þus with feyned flatering and Iapes
                                
                                  He made þe person and þe poeple his apes
                                
                                  But trewely to tellen atte þe laste
                                
                                  He was in chirche a noble ecclesiaste
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                                  Wel couþe he rede a lessonn or a story

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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 20
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868-[1869]

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