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

                                
                                     [6-text p 310] 
                                  
                                  For to compleine ar he hir slowhe alas
                                
                                  And god it wote no þinge was hire trespas [folio 172b] 
                                
                                  Bot þat sche rann hir fader first to see
                                
                                  To welcom him wiþ grete solempnite
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde sche fel in swoune anone
                                
                                  And after whan hir swounynge was agone
                                
                                  Sche riseþ vpe and to hire fader seide
                                
                                  Blissed be god þat .I. schal deye a meide
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                                  ȝif me my deþe ar þat .I. haue a schame
                                
                                  Doþe wiþ ȝoure Childe ȝoure wil a goddes name
                                
                                  And wiþ þat word sche praieþ ful oft
                                
                                  þat with his swerde he scholde smite hir softe
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                                  And wiþ þat word in swoune doune sche felle
                                
                                  Hir fader wiþ ful sorweful hert and felle
                                
                                  Hire heued of smote and be toppe it hent
                                
                                  And to þe Iuge he ȝaue it to present
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                                  As he satt in his dome in consistorie
                                
                                  Whan þe Iuge it sauhe as seiþe þe storie
                                
                                  He badde take him and honge him also fast
                                
                                  Bot riht anone al þe peple in þrast
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  To saue þe knyht for reuþe and for pyte
                                
                                  ffor knowen was þe foles iniquite
                                
                                  þe peple anone hadd susspecte in þis þinge
                                
                                  Be maner of þis clerkes chalangeinge
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                                  þat it was be þe assent of Apius
                                
                                  That wist wele þat he was lycherous
                                
                                  ffor whiche vn-to þis Apius þei gone
                                
                                  And kesten him in prison riht a-none
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                                  Whereas he slowhe him selfe and Claudius
                                
                                  That seruant was vn-to þis Apius
                                
                                  Was demed for to honge vpon a tre
                                
                                  Bot virgineus of his grete Pite
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                                  Praide for him þat he was exiled
                                
                                  And elles certes he hadde be by-gilede
                                
                                  The remenant were honged more and lesse
                                
                                  That consented were to þis cursednesse

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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 433
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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