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

                                
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                                  The hihe god for-bad swereinge att al
                                
                                  Wittenesse of Mathewe bot in special
                                
                                  Of swereinge seiþe holy Ieromye
                                
                                  Thowe shalt swere soþe þine oþes and nouht lye
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                                  And swere in dome and eke in rihtwisnesse
                                
                                  Bot Idel swereinge is a cursedenesse
                                
                                  Be-holde and see þat in þe first table [folio 177a] 
                                
                                  Of hihe goddes hestes honurable
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                                  How þat þe secunde hest of him is þis
                                
                                  Take nouht my name in Idelnesse amys
                                
                                  Lo raþer he for-bedes suche suereinge
                                
                                  Or Omyside or any oþer Cursed þinge
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                                  .I. seie as be order þus it standeþ
                                
                                  [This knoweth ye that his hestes vnderstandeth [Addit. 25,718 folio 58a] ]
                                
                                  How þat þe secunde hest of god is þat
                                
                                  And forþermore .I. wil þe tel al plat
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                                  þat vengeance schal nouht parte fro his hous
                                
                                  þat of his oþes is so outrageous
                                
                                  Be goddes precious hert and his nayles
                                
                                  And be his blode þat is in hayles
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                                  Seuen is myn chaunce and þine is fyue and þre
                                
                                  Be goddes armes if þou fals-ly pleie me
                                
                                  This dagger schal þoruhe þine hert go
                                
                                  This fruyte commeþ of þe becched bones tuo
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                                  Forswereynge . Ire . falsenes . Omycide
                                
                                  Now for þe loue of criste þat for vs deide
                                
                                  Leueþ ȝoure oþes boþe grete and smale
                                
                                  And wiþe good entent herkeneþ my tale
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                                  Thes ryetoures þre of whiche .I. telle
                                
                                  Longe ar prime ronge any belle
                                
                                  Were sett hem in a tauerne to drinke
                                
                                  And as þei satt þei herde a belle klynke
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                                  Be-forne a cors was cariede to his graue
                                
                                  þan one of hem gan cal vnto his knaue
                                
                                  Go bette quod he and axe redelye
                                
                                  What corps it is þat passeþ fast bye

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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 446
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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