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

[6-text p 308] .I. wille preue it and finde good wittenesse þat soþe is þat my bill will expresse The Iuge Ansewerde of þis in his absence .I. maie not ȝif diffinitif sentence 172 Latt done him call . & .I. wil gladly here Thou schalt haue riht and no wronge here Virgineus came to wite þe Iuges will And riht a-none was redde þis cursed bill 176 þe sentence of hit was as ȝe schal here To ȝowe my lorde sir Apius so dere Scheweþ ȝoure pouer seruant Claudius Howe þat a knyht called virgineus 180 Aȝeines þe lawe aȝeines al equite Holdeþ expresse aȝeines þe wil of me Mi seruant whiche þat is þrall be riht Wyche from myne hous was stolne one a nyht 184 Whiles sche was ful ȝonge .I. will . it preue Be wittenesse lorde so þat ȝe ȝowe nouht greue Sche his nouht his douhter what so he seie Where-for my lorde þe Iugge to ȝowe .I. preie 188 Ȝelde me my þrall if it be ȝoure wil Lo þis was þe sentence of þe bil Virgineus began vpon þe clerke be-holde Bote hastely ar he his tale tolde 192 He wolde haue defended it as scholde a knyht And be wittenesse of mony a trewe wyht That al was fals þat seide his aduersarie This Cursed Iuge wolde no longer tarie 196 Ne here a worde more of Virgineus Bot ȝaf his Iugement and seide þus .I. deme anone þis clerk his seruant haue Thou schalt no longer in þin house hir saue [folio 172a] 200 Go bringe hir forþe and bringe hir in owre warde This clerk schal haue his þralle þus .I. awarde And whan þis worþi knyht Virgineus Thoruhe þassent of þe Iuge Apius 204
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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