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

                                
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                                  Bot naþeles if .I. can schape it so
                                
                                  þat it departed weere a-monge vs tuo
                                
                                  Hadd .I. nouȝt done a frendes torne to þe
                                
                                  That oþere answerde .I. note howe þat myht be
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                                  .I. wote þat þe golde is owre tuo
                                
                                  What schol we seie what schold we do
                                
                                  Schall it be counseile seide þe first schrewe
                                
                                  And .I. schal tel in wordes fewe
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                                  That we schal done and bringe it wele aboute
                                
                                  .I. grant quod þat oþere oute of doute
                                
                                  þat be my treuþe .I. will þe nouht be-wreye
                                
                                  Now quod þe first þou woste wele we be tueye
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                                  And tueyne of vs schal stronger bien þan one
                                
                                  Looke whan he is sett and þat anone
                                
                                  Arise as þou woldest wiþ him pleye
                                
                                  And .I. schal renne him þoruhe þe sides tueye
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                                  Whiles þat þou stroglest wiþ him in game
                                
                                  And wiþ þi dagger loke þou do þe same
                                
                                  And þanne schal al þis golde departed be
                                
                                  My dere frende be-tuex me and þe
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                                  Than maie we boþe oure lustes fulfille
                                
                                  And pleie att dees riht att oure owen will
                                
                                  And þus accorded bien þe schrewes tueye
                                
                                  To sle þe þredde as ȝe herd me seie
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                                  þis ȝongest whiche þat went to þe toune
                                
                                  Ful oft in hert he rolleþ vpe and doune
                                
                                  þe bewte of þes floreines newe and briht
                                
                                  O lorde quod he if so were þat .I. myht
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                                  Al þis tresore winne to my self alone
                                
                                  þere is no man þat leueþ vnder þe throne
                                
                                  Of god þat schold leue as mery as .I.
                                
                                  And att þe last þe fende oure enemye
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                                  Put in his þouht þat he scholde poyson bye
                                
                                  With whiche he miht sleyne his felawes tueye
                                
                                  For whi þe fend fonde him in suche leueynge
                                
                                  That hadde leue him to sorwe bringe

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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 451
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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