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

                                
                                     [6-text p 324] 
                                  
                                  And loke þat þoue reporte his name wele
                                
                                  Sir quod þis boye it nedeþ neuer a dele
                                
                                  It was me tolde ar ȝe cam here tuo owres
                                
                                  He was parde an olde felawe of ȝoures
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                                  Al sodenly was he sleine to nyht
                                
                                  For-dronke as he satt vp his benche vpriht
                                
                                  Ther cam a priue þefe þat men clepen deþe
                                
                                  That in his contre al þe peple sleþe
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                                  And wiþ his spere he smot his hert a tuo
                                
                                  And went is waie wiþ-outen wordes mo
                                
                                  And Maister ar ȝe com in his presence
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                                  He haþe a þousande sleine þis pestelence
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                                  Me þinkeþ it were necessarie
                                
                                  For to bue war of suche an aduersarie [folio 177b] 
                                
                                  Beþ rede for to mete him euermore
                                
                                  Thus tauht me my dame .I. seie no more
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                                  Be seinte Marie seyde þis tauernere
                                
                                  This childe seiþ soþe for he haþ sleine to ȝere
                                
                                  Hennes ouere a Mile wiþ-inne a gret village
                                
                                  Boþe man and womman childe and page
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                                  I trowe his habitacione be þere
                                
                                  To been avisede grete wisdome it weere
                                
                                  Ere þat he dide a man dishonoure
                                
                                  Ȝe goddes armes quod þis Rietoure
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                                  Is it suche perile wiþ him for to mete
                                
                                  .I. schal him seeke be waie and eke be strete
                                
                                  .I. make . avowe be goddes deyne bones
                                
                                  Herkeneþ felawes we þre been al ones
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                                  Lat iche of vs holde vp his honde to oþere
                                
                                  And iche of vs be-comme oþers broþere
                                
                                  And we wil sle þis false traitur deþe
                                
                                  He schal be sleyne he þat so mony sleþe
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                                  Be goddes dignite ar it be nihte
                                
                                  To-geder haue þes þre her hertes hihte
                                
                                  To leue and deie ilke of hem wiþ oþere
                                
                                  As þouhe he ware his owen sworne broþer

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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 447
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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