The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
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                                  For we bue oute of her correctione
                                
                                  Thei haue of vs no Iurdictione
                                
                                  Ne neuer scholle terme of al her lyues
                                
                                  Peter so bue þe wymmen of þe styues
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                                  Quod þis Somnour yput houte of al oure cure
                                
                                  Pes wiþ meschaunce and wiþ misauenture [folio 103a] 
                                
                                  Thus seid owre oste and late him tel his tale
                                
                                  Now telleþ forþe and lete þe Somnour gale
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                                  Ne spareþ nouht myne owen meister dere
                                
                                  This false þef þis somenour quod þe frere
                                
                                  Hadde alweie baudes redye to his honde
                                
                                  As any hauke to lure in Ingelonde
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                                  þat tellen him al þe secree þat þei knewe
                                
                                  Of hire acqueyntance was nat come of newe
                                
                                  þei weren his approwers priuely
                                
                                  He toke him self a grete profit þer by
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                                  His maister knewe nat alweie what he wan
                                
                                  Wiþ-outen maundement of a lewed man
                                
                                  He couþe Somne of pein cristes curs
                                
                                  And þei weere glad to fill his purs
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                                  And maade him grete festis att nale
                                
                                  Riht as Iudas had purse smale
                                
                                  And was a þeef riht suche a þeef was he
                                
                                  His maister had bot half his Dewte
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                                  He was. if .I. schal ȝeuen him his laude
                                
                                  An þeef and eke a somnour and a baude
                                
                                  He had eke wenches of his retenue
                                
                                  That wheþer sir Robert or sir hewe
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                                  Or Iohn or Raufe or who þat it wer
                                
                                  þat lei by hem þei tolde it in his ere
                                
                                  Þus was þe wenche and he of on assent
                                
                                  Ande he wolde feche a feyned maundement
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                                  And somone hem to chapeter boþ tuo
                                
                                  And pil þe man and latt þe wenche go
                                
                                  Than wolde he seie frend .I. sal for þi sake
                                
                                  Do strike þe oute of owre letter blake

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 252
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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