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

                                
                                     [6-text p 307] 
                                  
                                  For certes be no force ne be no meede
                                
                                  Him þouht he was not able for to spede
                                
                                  For he was stronge of frendes and eke sche
                                
                                  Confermed was in suche souereigne beute
                                  Line 136 
                                
                                  That wele he wist he myht hire neuer wynne
                                
                                  As for to maake hire wiþ hire bodi synne
                                
                                  For whiche wiþ grete deliberacioune
                                
                                  He sent after a clerk in to þe toune
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                                  The whiche he knewe ful sotel and ful bolde
                                
                                  This Iuge haþe vn-to þis clerke his tale ytolde
                                
                                  In secre wise and maade him to assure
                                
                                  He schold tel it to no creature
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  And if he dide he scholde lese his hede
                                
                                  And whan assented was þis cursed rede
                                
                                  Gladde was þe Iuge and maade goode chiere
                                
                                  And ȝaf him ȝeftes precious and dere
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                                  Whan schapen was al þis conspiracie
                                
                                  From pointe to pointe howe þat his licherye
                                
                                  Performed schold be ful sotellye
                                
                                  As ȝe schal heren afterward openlye
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  Home goþe þis clerk þat hiht Claudius
                                
                                  This fals Iuge þat hiht Apius
                                
                                  So was his name it is no fable
                                
                                  Bot knowen for an historall þinge notable
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                                  The sentence of it soþ is oute of doute
                                
                                  This fals Iuge goþ nowe faste aboute [folio 171b] 
                                
                                  To hasten his delite al þat he maie
                                
                                  And so be-fel sone after on a daie
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  Þis fals Iuge as telleþ vs þe storie
                                
                                  As he was wonte satt in his Consistorie
                                
                                  And ȝaue his domes vpon sundre caas
                                
                                  This fals clerke cam forþe a wel good paas
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                                  And seide lorde if þat it be ȝoure will
                                
                                  As doþe me riht vpon þis pitous bill
                                
                                  In whiche .I. pleine vpon virgineus
                                
                                  And if þat he wil seine it is nouȝ[t] þus

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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 430
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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